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.