MyDocker / Planets: virtual environments for teaching and beyond - MyDocker@Paris-Saclay (Planets)

Chiara Marmo
Research Engineer for pedagogy
Nicolas M. Thiéry
Professor, Project Lead for educational platforms
Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Digital Sciences (LISN)
Paris-Saclay University

April 7, 2025, IAS, Orsay

Summary¶

On the agenda¶

Putting scientific digital tools at everyone’s fingertips
Virtual environments, digital notebooks, Jupyter
Challenges, support needs
MyDocker / Planets
notebook.link

Putting scientific digital tools at everyone’s fingertips¶

Example of a virtual environment for introductory C++¶

Example: digital notebooks (notebook)¶

Potential, challenges, support needs¶

Data 8: data science for all students at UC Berkeley
700k high school students use Capytale
GT Notebook by HumaNum

Potential: million(s) of users in France¶

Challenges¶

State of the art¶

Action at Paris-Saclay/CentraleSupélec: MyDocker/Planets¶

Alternatives¶

Name	Dev	SaaS	Sovereign	Deployable	Persistence	Scalability	Environments	Configurability	Collaboration	GPU	multi-container
Collab & co	Google, Amazon, ...	✅			✅		Jupyter		✅	✅
Nuvolos	Nuvolos	✅			✅		?
CoCalc	CoCalc Inc	✅	🟧	💪	✅		Jupyter	🟧	✅	?

Capytale	Académie Paris/Orléans	✅	✅		✅	👍👍👍 700k+	JupyterLite, geogebra, ...
JupyterLite	Jupyter Community			✅	✅	👍👍	JupyterLite	✅	✅
notebook.link	QuantStack	✅	🟩		✅	👍👍👍	JupyterLite	✅	✅

JupyterHub	Jupyter Community			💪-💪💪	✅	👍👍	All		🟨
Binder	Jupyter Community			💪-💪💪			All	✅	🟨
MyDocker	CentraleSupélec/Paris-Saclay	✅	✅	🚧	✅		All	✅	🟨	🟩
Marionum	Île de France	✅	✅		✅	👍	All	✅	?

Onyxia / SSPCloud	INSEE	✅	✅	💪💪	✅		All	💪	✅	✅	✅