Presentation
The Chameleon Testbed Tutorial
DescriptionThis tutorial presents Chameleon (www.chameleoncloud.org), an open experimental platform providing access to state-of-the-art infrastructure for projects in Computer Science research, education, and emergent applications. Chameleon consists of three main operating sites -- located at University of Chicago, TACC, and NCAR – each providing access to innovative architecture configurations including e.g., Fujitsu FX700 (“Fugaku nodes”), Liqid and GigaIO disaggregated hardware, a range of GPUs, and others. The hardware is reconfigurable at bare metal level to support research on topics like power management and performance variability, where control over the full software stack is important. In addition to datacenter hardware, Chameleon also supports experiments using edge hardware allowing for a range of edge to cloud explorations.
This tutorial will introduce attendees to the Chameleon platform and explain how to best use it for HPC research. We will first explain the basic system capabilities in the context of a typical experiment, and then progress to more advanced features including construction of complex experimental environments such as virtual clusters; experimenting in the edge to cloud continuum, illustrated with examples using autonomous vehicles; and best practices and digital artifacts supporting packaging experiments for reproducibility, highlighting Chameleon's role as the default platform for SC24 Artifact Evaluation.
This tutorial will introduce attendees to the Chameleon platform and explain how to best use it for HPC research. We will first explain the basic system capabilities in the context of a typical experiment, and then progress to more advanced features including construction of complex experimental environments such as virtual clusters; experimenting in the edge to cloud continuum, illustrated with examples using autonomous vehicles; and best practices and digital artifacts supporting packaging experiments for reproducibility, highlighting Chameleon's role as the default platform for SC24 Artifact Evaluation.
Event Type
Tutorial
TimeSunday, 17 November 20248:30am - 12pm EST
LocationB213
Architecture
Embedded and/or Reconfigurable Systems
TUT