Authors – Isabel Brunkan

Interested in using Chameleon for edge computing? We've released our report on the very first CHI@Edge community workshop that happened in September! Learn about some of our early users' research and our top takeaways from the first few months of operating an edge testbed. 

The Chameleon Tickets of the Year blog returns for a second time! To close out the year, we’ve gathered and answered some of the most commonly seen user problems brought to the Help Desk’s attention in 2021. As always, creating a helpdesk ticket is the fastest way to reach the Chameleon support team and get help, though it doesn’t hurt to check our documentation and the Chameleon FAQ as well!

Attending SC21? Check out the initiatives Chameleon is supporting including workshops, papers written using Chameleon, and more! If you’re presenting something at SC21 and not on this list, send us an email!

Join us on Friday, October 22 at 1.30p CT for Chameleon Live - an informal webinar where the Chameleon team will showcase the newest features of the testbed and answer questions from the community. Think of it as office hours to learn all about Chameleon updates and how to use them! Register and submit questions here: https://forms.gle/4itPs913vFTbnnGG9

New to Chameleon? Or are you a Chameleon veteran interested in exploring a new feature or tool you’ve seen on Chameleon, but not sure where to begin? Look no further - we’ve gathered the top Chameleon tutorials for you to use as inspiration! Ranging from full-length webinars to short overview videos, you can learn and explore new ways to experiment on Chameleon!

See Chameleon Lead PI Kate Keahey's keynote at IC2E on Experimenting from Edge to Cloud on October 6th! Learn more about the talk and register here: https://bit.ly/3APDL65

Chameleon Lead PI Kate Keahey will be giving a keynote at IEEE Cloud Summit! See the talk: Taking Science from Cloud to Edge during the conference Oct 21-22. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3EUQ4jX

Tune in October 27 at 8a PST on the networking channel to hear Chameleon Lead PI Kate Keahey and DevOps lead Jason Anderson speak about how to use Chameleon to run experiments spanning edge devices and the cloud! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3zLoK3Z 

Explore experiments packaged and runnable on Chameleon with ~5 minute videos by the authors explaining how to launch the notebook, provision resources, and run the experiment. Whether you’re new to Chameleon, Jupyter, or Trovi, these videos can help you get started quickly and easily!

As part of Phase 3, we’re looking to improve the Chameleon experience and make the system generally better over the next 4 years. This is your chance to guide hardware purchases, influence Chameleon capabilities and change priorities in our roadmap. 

To help us in this effort, we would like to invite you to take this 10-15 minute survey, and share your experiences, desires, pain points and anything else to help us build a better Chameleon for you! The survey will be open till the end of June. 

Thank you in advance for your participation!

The survey is available here: 2021 Chameleon User Survey

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