Announcing Chameleon Live!

Join us on Friday, October 22 at 1.30p CT for Chameleon Live - an informal webinar where the Chameleon team will showcase the newest features of the testbed and answer questions from the community. Think of it as office hours to learn all about Chameleon updates and how to use them! Register and submit questions here: https://forms.gle/4itPs913vFTbnnGG9

Chameleon on YouTube: Top Chameleon Videos to Learn and Explore

New to Chameleon? Or are you a Chameleon veteran interested in exploring a new feature or tool you’ve seen on Chameleon, but not sure where to begin? Look no further - we’ve gathered the top Chameleon tutorials for you to use as inspiration! Ranging from full-length webinars to short overview videos, you can learn and explore new ways to experiment on Chameleon!

Chameleon on the Networking Channel

Tune in October 27 at 8a PST on the networking channel to hear Chameleon Lead PI Kate Keahey and DevOps lead Jason Anderson speak about how to use Chameleon to run experiments spanning edge devices and the cloud! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3zLoK3Z 

A Statistics-Based Performance Testing Methodology for Cloud Applications

University of Texas, San Antonio Professor Wei Wang and PhD student Sen He investigate performance testing for cloud computing research to help make your research more efficient and cost effective. Learn about their research, which won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award in 2019, experience on Chameleon and AWS, and life philosophies.

Chameleon Changelog for August 2021

In this month's changelog, we announce support for "restricted" edge devices, allowing your research group to temporarily lock down a contributed edge device to only be reservable by your group, but also some more support for interesting peripherals like a camera connected to a Jetson Nano. For more details, come in!

Chameleon@Edge Community Workshop

Date: September 9, 2021

Location: The workshop will take place online, registered attendees will receive details closer to the event date.

Registration: The registration is free and the workshop is open to all, but please bear in mind that registration will close on August 31st. Register at:  https://forms.gle/VmbaCquWMNXe7bCs6

For more details, the call for participation, and agenda, please refer to the announcements page!

Chameleon for Education: IIT’s Intro to Parallel Programming

Interested in using Chameleon for education? Illinois Institute of Technology’s TA and PhD candidate Melanie Cornelius and Dr. Zhiling Lan use Chameleon for undergraduate and graduate students in their Intro to Parallel Programming and Parallel and Distributed Processing classes. Learn all about how the course is structured, incorporating Chameleon into assignments, and tips for using Chameleon for education.

Using Paramiko to Tune Network Performance

Interested in large-scale networking research? Learn more about GENI-style stitching and how to optimize host tuning for 20x performance increases with Python's paramiko package. This blog complements a fully packaged experiment on Trovi, so you can practice doing this yourself! New to Trovi? This blog also outlines how to start running the notebook on Trovi.