MyBinder @ OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a long-time supporter of the Jupyter project. In the past few years, they have provided computing resources to several Jupyter-related endeavors to support its sustainability.
- In 2019, Project Jupyter and OVHcloud started collaborating on the hosting of the MyBinder service. With tens of thousands of sessions daily, MyBinder was increasingly dependent on a single instance on a single cloud provider. The offer of OVHcloud triggered a community effort to make MyBinder truly multi-cloud. This is how the Binder Federation was created, with OVHcloud as its first member. Since then, the Binder Federation has grown with new members gracefully hosting a portion of the traffic. OVHcloud also hosts the nbviewer.org service.
- When the global pandemic hit in 2020, the JupyterCon organizers decided to pivot from an in-person event set to happen in Berlin to a fully online experience. Lorena Barba, the general chair of the committee, envisioned an experience for talks and tutorials in which attendees could interact with the technology. OVHcloud stepped up as the Platinum sponsor, gracefully providing the infrastructure for the various deployments of Jupyter required for the conference, including GPUs for the online tutorials requiring them.
A new partnership with NumFOCUS
Today, we are thrilled to announce that OVHcloud is partnering with NumFOCUS to provide infrastructure to affiliated projects.
Two pilot projects will benefit from this new agreement: Pandas and Jupyter.
On the Jupyter side, these new resources will be used to increase the OVHcloud hosting of MyBinder, thereby helping the project’s sustainability in the long term, continuing to avoid dependency on a single cloud provider. A significant proportion of the traffic of the Binder federation will now be handled by the OVHcloud deployment.
Acknowledgement
We are grateful to Kevin Amil, Marie-Christine Ribeiro, Marie Hering, and Mael Le Gal from OVHcloud for facilitating this new partnership and helping with the migration to the new infrastructure.
We are grateful to OVHcloud for their continued support to the Jupyter project and the NumFOCUS foundation.
