Category – Chameleon Changelog

Chameleon Changelog for April 2022

Lots of fabulous news this month! We have some big CHI@Edge updates and final CHI@Edge version 2.0 release, including a new artifact to make setting up experiments easy. We also greatly improved the implementation of Trovi, including the ability to import and export artifacts from/to git.

Chameleon Changelog for March 2022

This month we announce some exciting improvements towards CHI@Edge 2.0, new hardware at Northwestern and with KVM, and improvements to CHI-in-a-Box!

Chameleon Changelog for February 2022

This month we're pleased to announce another new site at CHI@EVL, hosted by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIUC! Additionally, we have more hardware coming online at CHI@TACC, including GPUs networked with InfiniBand, and are announcing a preview of open enrollment for CHI@Edge, allowing you to add your own Raspberry Pis to be managed and accessed via the edge testbed interfaces. Phew!

Chameleon Changelog for January 2022

We've got some great updates about new hardware, some provided by an entirely new Chameleon site at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Welcome CHI@NCAR, as well as new AMD nodes (some w/ GPU) at CHI@TACC, and more SSDs and GPU capacity at CHI@UC.

Chameleon Changelog for December 2021

In this month's changelog, we announce an early preview of a Public API for Trovi, Chameleon's system for reproducibility, which has wider amibitions for the coming year. Additionally, we review more additions to the hardware catalogue at CHI@UC and a new release of CHI-in-a-Box!

Chameleon Changelog for November 2021

It's our post-SC wrapup! In this month's changelog, we've got several new edge devices to announce, as well as improvements for UEFI boot support, a better way to view and track your allocation spending, and more.

Chameleon Changelog for October 2021

In this month's changelog, we're excited to announce a new batch of hardware at CHI@UC, including more flexible network topologies, some very high-powered nodes, and InfiniBand-connected GPUs. We've also added support for provisioning ARM-based machines to support CHI-in-a-Box associate sites who wish to configure ARM nodes. As always, more inside!

Chameleon Changelog for September 2021

In this month's changelog, we announce a few really cool new features, one of which has been on our most-requested list for a long while: PI delegate! Besides that, there is a brand-new preview capability that allows you to share your Trovi experiments with non-Chameleon users so they can reproduce your work w/o an allocation. More details, as always, inside.

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 Changelog for July 2021

In this month's changelog, we announce more cool CHI@Edge features, notably support for accessing and reading attached camera data (and other peripherals!). We've also added support for more types of edge devices as we continue to build out the platform. On the bare metal cloud side of things, we've been making improvements to our interfaces--enjoy a refresh of the lease create GUI, which should support more complex types of leases! We also squashed some pesky bugs in the Python API to make it even easier to use Chameleon via Jupyter.