Who?

http://opendreamkit.org/

• EU H2020 project, call on Virtual Research Environments.
• Budget: 7.6M€.
• 4 years: Sep 2015 – Aug 2019.
• 15 sites, 50 participants.
• 7 work pacakges, 828 person-months.
• 168 (and counting) GitHub issues, 57 tasks, 85 deliverables.
• 4 CAS's, 1 scientific notebook system, uncountable software packages!

15 sites, 50 participants

100% developers, 100% open source

• GAP (St Andrews, Oxford)
• Linbox (Grenoble)
• PARI/GP (Bordeaux, Versailles)
• SageMath (Bordeaux, Grenoble, Paris Sud, Oxford, Versailles)
• Singular, MPIR (Kaiserslautern)
• LMFDB (Warwick, Zürich)
• MathHub, MMT/OpenMath (Bremen)
• Jupyter (Simula)
• Scientific Python (SouthHampton, Sheffield, Silesia)
• ...

What?

Virtual Research Environment (VRE)noun, n., (newspeak)Groups of researchers, typically widely dispersed who are working together through ubiquitous, trusted and easy access to services for scientific data, computing, and networking, in a collaborative virtual environment.

Translation: Research + Cloud.

So, what do you REALLY do?

• Building just one VRE is BORING!

• We are not the next CNRS cloud!

We are building a math VRE TOOLKIT!

• Entirely based on open source components!

Mix'n'match components

• Collaborative workspaces (JupyterHub, SageMathCloud)
• User interfaces (Jupyter notebook)
• Computational components (Linbox, PARI/GP, GAP, SageMath, Singular, ...)
• Data / knowledge bases (LMFDB, MathHub, ...)
• Physical resources (Cloud infrastructure, ...)

Scale to ANY environment

• Personal laptop;
• Your team's server;
• Your University cloud;
• A European grid infrastructure.

How?

Open·Dream·Kit

Open

Open source, of course, but also:

• Open application process;
• Open progress tracking;
• Open research (open access, open data).

Dream

Kit

• Mathematical libraries;

• Computer Algebra Software: GAP, PARI/gp, SageMath, Singular;

• Knowledge bases: MathHub active mathematical documents and flexiformal mathematics.

• Jupyter notebook: a browser-based, interactive, system-agnostic notebook;

• VREs: JupyterHub, JupyterLab, SageMathCloud, ...

Demos

Jupyter

• Try it yourself at https://tmpnb.org/!

• Or

  sudo apt-get install jupyter
  jupyter notebook
  

• Or, if you have SageMath 7.x,

  sage -n jupyter
  

• Or in SageMathCloud (commercial service, classroom tools, freemium).

JupyterHub

• User accounts + Jupyter.

• Simple yet effective VRE.

• Still experimental, read the docs!

• Next evolution: JupyterLab full featured cloud system.

More than just a notebook!

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Knowledge bases

• Syntactic search on Zentralblatt;

• Next evolution: semantic search, active documents.

Coming soon

• A lot more plumbery...

• SageMath on Windows! test it!

• apt-get install sagemath !!!

• ...