Distributed Computing

Starting on the road to federated learning as a platform ...

Review of ongoing projects

tentative, incomplete list:

Dashboards

Abhinav / Brian / Hui / Bhaumik / ...

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PWA

Brian / Bhaumik

Quest

Daniel / Hui / Kundan ...

SAS Plan B (until Viya gets installed)

Nicole/Daniel

Egress and security considerations of available options

BigQuery

demo BD from R, and from SAS

The continuum json file, firestore, BigQuery

WebAssembly (conclusion of preliminary tests)

Jeya / Jonas / ...

for discussion:

1 - Is there anymore a good reason to distribute containerized code? (No, wasm runtimes are containerized too)

2 - If some collaborators in a project require old-school command line executables can we in principe provide it to them? (Yes)

3 - Are there any major barriers, of interoperability or numerical support, to JS weaving distributing computing ecosystems contained by sandboxes? (No)

Data Platform

Jonas/ Bhaumik / Daniel / Lorena / ...

PLCO

Lorena / Jonas / Jeya / ...

Serotracker

https://observablehq.com/@episphere/serotracker

Time series

Daniel ...

Image Data Commons

Halo and other clients ... Praful

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