[PROPL'24] Toward a Live, Rich, Composable, and Collaborative Planetary Compute Engine

Alexander Bandukwala, Andrew Blinn, Cyrus Omar

Addressing the climate crisis poses many computing challenges for a variety of stakeholders, many of whom are not CS experts but rather scientists, policymakers, journalists, and members of the public. In order to solve these challenges there needs to be a large-scale collaborative compute engine that is live, rich, composable, and collaborative. Specifically, we present Planet Hazel, a vision of the Hazel programming environment geared toward planetary computing.