[IPython-dev] Stand-alone single-cell live public demo

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Kyle Kelley <rgbkrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since you said thread and the details seem right Jason, I'm assuming you
> meant to respond to the whole list. If not, please banish me to the shadows.
>
> I'm not currently going to recommend running your own tmpnb to back
> widgets, since it requires a whole bunch of security constraints for me to
> feel it's reasonable to be hosting it. Docker does most of the sandboxing
> but then we take additional steps at an operating system level. These are
> in Ansible as well, publicly on github but that doesn't make it any easier.
>
> What I'd like to do is provide a much more simpler way of interacting with
> kernels that you can point to, as an API. You get the compute on demand, in
> a similar to way as seen in the beta.oreilly.com content. In the backend,
> that's running on tmpnb too but you as a user shouldn't have to manage that
> setup. You also don't necessarily want to pay for the kernels per your
> visiting user (maybe up to a point, as tmpnb does). Perhaps it gets
> offloaded to another provider of a kernels service. I've still got learning
> to do on my end.
>
> Can you provide access to the GUI you've developed to some number of us
> (or to everyone on the list)? I'm not in academia so I promise not to scoop
> you. ;)
>
> -- Kyle
>
>
Hey Kyle,

Thanks for taking a look at this.  I'll set up a tarball this weekend that
you can play around with.

-Nathan


>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Jason Grout <jason-sage at creativetrax.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/7/15 19:59, William Stein wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I asked about this a few months ago, but I'm curious if the status has
>>>> changed in the meantime.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to make a GUI that I've developed based on IPython widgets
>>>> publically viewable. The end result I'd like is a way to paste a link
>>>> to the
>>>> demo along with the submission of my paper to the arxiv. Each user
>>>> would get
>>>> a unique live view of the GUI, although there would be no input from the
>>>> user besides GUI interactions and everything will be read-only.  Each
>>>> instance would need to be able to see a few hundred megabytes of on-disk
>>>> data.
>>>>
>>>> The last time I asked about this I was told I'd need to whip up
>>>> something
>>>> by-hand.  Are there any services that do this already?  Failing that,
>>>> what
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jason Grout wrote something kind of like that, which Andrey Novoseltsev
>>> runs:
>>>
>>>      http://sagecell.sagemath.org/
>>>
>>> We just moved the hosting to both some machines in Germany and some
>>> machines on Google Compute Engine, to increase reliability, etc...
>>> The above is all BSD licensed, and provides the ability to nicely
>>> embed interactive computation in web sites.        Anyways, thought
>>> you might find it relevant.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The sage cell server sort of works (worked?) with IPython widgets. There
>> are two big issues with how well it works with IPython widgets:
>>
>> 1. it didn't include all of the necessary styling and libraries that
>> IPython widgets depended on (e.g., Twitter Bootstrap, etc.), so sometimes
>> they looked weird.  A way to fix this would be to recode javascript
>> frontends for the IPython widgets that work in the context of any webpage
>> (not just pages that use Bootstrap, for example).  Good news is that we
>> want to do this, but it will be a while before it is done.
>>
>> 2. It worked with an older version of IPython widgets, but I have not
>> been checking in the last year to see if any of our changes to IPython
>> widgets work well in sage cell server.  And we have been making a lot of
>> changes in IPython widgets.
>>
>> The good news is that (1) you have total control over the webpage, so you
>> can include the necessary libraries for the IPython widgets to work, like
>> Bootstrap.  However, (2) is still a possible issue.
>>
>> There are also other projects for providing a backend like this.  For
>> example, try.jupyter.org or tmpnb.org host ephemeral IPython notebooks.
>> That might be the easiest solution.  To find more about setting up
>> something like those, please ask in the IPython help room:
>> https://gitter.im/ipython/ipython/help, or Kyle Kelley might reply to
>> this thread here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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