Introduction and Motivation

Introduction and Motivation#

Pangeo is a global community initiative for Big Geoscience Data that promotes open, reproducible, and scalable science:

  • Open Community

  • Open Platform with deployments that can be customized for every needs and for everyone

Since August 2023, Pangeo is a Numfocus sponsored project.

Numfocus

Important information about Pangeo#

Key points#

  • No vendor lock-in, no credits needed;

  • Easy to start and deployment on laptops, cloud and HPC;

  • “Reference” deployments on different cloud infrastructures;

  • Team up with other initiatives. It can help to increase DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion):

    • Educational material and deliver trainings (Pythia, Galaxy);

    • Training infrastructure as a Service (Pythia, Galaxy, EOSC);

    • Use Pangeo from GUI (no programming skills required) on Galaxy Europe.

  • Contribute to easy creation of data in analysis-ready, cloud optimized (ARCO) format;

  • Promote the work done by the Pangeo Community and other Geosciences initiatives (Pangeo Show & Tell/Showcase/Pangeo discourse);

  • Pangeo heavily used in industry;

  • Spin-off (often from Pangeo community members) and many startups & companies using Pangeo software stack and contributing to Pangeo ecosystem.