Chameleon Changelog for March 2025

This month, we have reminders for KVM@TACC and CHI@Edge outages later this month. Additionally, we have version 1.1 of python-chi, and improvements to reservations!
 

EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing

Making code edits more effective, robust, and transparent through explicit transformation rules

In this interview, Weichen Li, a PhD student from the University of Chicago discusses research on improving code editing through explicit transformation rules. EditLord breaks down the code editing process into clear, step-by-step transformations, significantly enhancing editing performance, robustness, and functional correctness compared to existing methods.

Extending Your Research Artifacts' Lifespan

How to Preserve Your Valuable Data on Chameleon Cloud

Understanding how to preserve your valuable research on Chameleon Cloud is crucial for research continuity and community contribution. Here's how to extend the lifespan of your resources through smart public sharing

Chameleon Changelog for February 2025

This month, we are excited to announce new updates to the Trovi dashboard, and the launch of the Chameleon User Forums. Additionally, please note our new data policies, as these will take effect soon!

Less Data, Better Results: How Active Learning Improves Workflow Anomaly Detection

Chameleon-Powered Research Shows the Path to Efficient Scientific Computing

Scientific workflows often fail in unexpected ways, but traditional detection systems require massive amounts of training data. This groundbreaking approach generates just the right data needed to train anomaly detection models, improving accuracy while reducing resource consumption.

Chameleon Changelog for January 2025

Pardon our dust! This month, we have been revising, modernizing, and upgrading to improve Chameleon services. We have updates on the upcoming KVM plans, FPGA changes, and more.

AutoAppendix: Towards One-Click Reproduction of Computational Artifacts

Streamlining Scientific Validation Through Automated Reproducibility Infrastructure

The AutoAppendix project evaluates computational artifact reproducibility across SC24 conference submissions, revealing that most researchers struggle with creating truly replicable experiments despite their importance to scientific validity. By developing one-click reproduction templates for the Chameleon Cloud platform, this research aims to transform how computational scientists share and validate their work, potentially saving countless hours of frustration for both authors and reviewers.

Top Blogs on Chameleon Last Year (2024)

Read about which Tips&Tricks blogs were most helpful to our community

Last year was remarkable for our blog, with over 10,000 views and 5,700 active users. As we kick off this year's tips and tricks series, we wanted to highlight the "evergreen" advice that our community returns to time and again. In this roundup, you'll find our most impactful insights - the strategies and solutions that have stood the test of time - each with a brief description and a direct link to the full article. Let's start the year by building on what works!

Chameleon Changelog for December 2024

Happy New Year! We’ve had a busy 2024 with new hardware and many system improvements! In our changelog today we note a couple of nits that slid under the wire in the last year and propose important changes to our virtualized offering – please, read carefully we are asking for your feedback to make sure that those innovations don’t interfere with your ability to use the system for your experiments. 
 

Minimizing Out-of-Memory Failures in Genomics Workflow Execution

Reducing Workflow Failures with Chameleon’s Scalable Research Platform

Processing large-scale genomics data efficiently is a monumental task, often hindered by high costs and resource allocation challenges. This blog dives into an innovative system designed to optimize genomics workflows by minimizing out-of-memory failures—a critical bottleneck in such operations. Through a combination of scalable benchmarking tools and a failure-aware scheduler, researchers are unlocking new possibilities for resource efficiency and reliability. Leveraging insights from Chameleon, this solution paves the way for groundbreaking advancements in genomic data processing.