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, and be directed to where you can reserve specific resources that meet your experimental requirements.

All physical resources available in Chameleon are described in the Chameleon reference repository. Users can consult the repository 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 reference repository and are discovered and managed separately — see the CHI@Edge docs.

Note

Resource 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 resource discovery page
• Virtual machine flavors
• Using the REST APIs for resource discovery