Welcome to Chameleon¶
What is Chameleon?¶
Chameleon is an NSF-funded testbed system for Computer Science experimentation. It is designed to be deeply reconfigurable, with a wide variety of capabilities for researching systems, networking, distributed and cluster computing and security. Chameleon’s features include:
- Bare metal access to hardware, via the cloud
- A wide variety of hardware types, including:
- Infiniband
- NVMe
- GPUs/FPGAs
- Low-power Xeon and ARM processors
- A powerful set of networking capabilities, including:
- Isolated layer-2 networks
- SDN/OpenFlow
- Dedicated WAN layer-2 links
Using Chameleon¶
Chameleon is available to Computer Science researchers and students. To access the system, follow the instructions in Getting started. Find out more at https://www.chameleoncloud.org.