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.
To provide support to our users, we are piloting by appointment Chameleon Office Hours. The first session will be on December 13, 2024, from 10:00-11:00 am and 2:30-3:30 pm Central time. Office hours appointments can be scheduled for 20 minute intervals, at least 8 hours in advance. To schedule an appointment, see this link.
As always, if you need help outside of this time, please contact our help desk. Additionally, you can find useful information about Chameleon on our blog, in our documentation, and on YouTube.
This month we have presentations from the 5th Chameleon User Meeting on practical reproducibility, and lots of housekeeping on Chameleon. These include improvements to IP availability, and fixes to the core testbed, Trovi, and CHI@Edge.
This month, we have updated appliances including Ubuntu 24.04! We also have Trovi dashboard updates and fixes to ARM64 nodes at CHI@TACC.
Discover the powerful updates in Python-chi 1.0, Chameleon's official Python library. This new release brings improved typing, new modules for hardware and storage management, interactive Jupyter widgets, clearer error messages, and easier low-level access. Learn how these enhancements can simplify your experiment workflow, from resource allocation to data analysis. Whether you're a seasoned Chameleon user or just getting started, Python-chi 1.0 offers tools to make your research more efficient and reproducible.
This month we have python-chi 1.0 released, and a new bare metal experiment pattern artifact to go with it!
This month, we are excited to announce GigaIO nodes at TACC, the OpenStack Antelope upgrade at TACC and an upgrade guide for associate sites, and a new associate site CHI@NRP. Additionally, we finally have Raspberry Pi 5 support for CHI@Edge. There is also a brand new Trovi dashboard (under preview). And we also improved the reliability of phase 2 nodes at CHI@UC.
This month we celebrated 9 years of Chameleon, and shared the exciting news of Chameleon Phase 4! We also completed the openstack upgrade at CHI@UC, updated the Getting Started, and released a dev version of python-chi.
This month, we are preparing for a big upgrade on July 15th. Additionally, we have CHI-in-a-box for edge sites, new hardware at CHI@UC, and improvements to project management.
This month we’ve again been focusing on improvements to the Chameleon backend, but we still are excited to show our CHI@Edge peripheral guide and new CHI-in-a-box features. We also are preparing for an OpenStack upgrade on July 1st.