A configurable experimental environment for large-scale edge to cloud research

This month, we have new H100 GPU nodes on KVM@TACC! Today, you can launch VM instances with 1 full H100 GPU. This hardware comes with a brand new workflow for reserving VMs. It’s important to note that this reservation workflow will be rolled out to the rest of KVM later in the summer. Additionally, we have refreshed our documentation. Lastly, CHI-in-a-box comes with a new image deploy tool for associate sites.
 

Teaching cloud computing effectively requires hands-on experience, but establishing local datacenters or using commercial cloud providers presents significant barriers for students. Chameleon Cloud provides the perfect solution, offering real cloud infrastructure experience without access limitations or costs, enabling comprehensive cloud computing education across European universities.

What's the secret ingredient that makes our new Chameleon images so much better? From automatic SSH configuration to built-in rclone support, these aren't your ordinary cloud images. Find out what makes them special.

View or contribute to the experiment packaging and style checklists (appendix A and B) on our GitHub repository here.

Download the report here.

We’re excited to announce the publication of the NSF-sponsored REPETO Report on Challenges of Practical Reproducibility for Systems and HPC Computer Science, a culmination of our Community Workshop on Practical Reproducibility in HPC, held in November 2024 in Atlanta, GA (reproduciblehpc.org).