Resource Discovery

Resource discovery on Chameleon allows you to explore and identify the specific hardware resources available for your experiments. You can discover nodes by their hardware characteristics, view detailed specifications, check maintenance history, and reserve specific resources that meet your experimental requirements.

All physical resources available in Chameleon are described in the Chameleon resource registry. The resource registry is based on the Reference API from the Grid’5000 project. Users can consult the registry via the resource discovery GUI or directly via REST APIs.

Note

This section covers discovery of Chameleon’s bare metal resources. CHI@Edge devices are not part of the resource registry and are discovered and managed separately — see the CHI@Edge docs.

Note

Hardware discovery is also available programmatically via the chi.hardware module in python-chi — see our Jupyter and python-chi guide for an introduction.

Resource Discovery Topics

• The hardware catalog on the Chameleon portal
• Using the REST APIs for resource discovery