Warm welcome back! We hope that your summer was fabulous in every possible way and now that finally both the semester and the quarter have started you are ready to embark on new adventures. We are here for this with tips for Chameleon newbies and an update for our wizened veterans.
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Apply to Be a Reproducibility Ambassador
Travel assistance for PhD students to advocate for reproducibility at a conference of their choosing
We're recruiting another round of Reproducibility Ambassadors. PhD students who package experiments on Chameleon and Trovi can receive up to $1,000 in travel assistance to attend a conference of their choosing and organize a small event on reproducibility there. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and funds are limited.
Chameleon Newsletter & Changelog September 2026
Welcome to the Chameleon September 2026 Newsletter!
Great news from Chameleon! Our new site at NCAR just got even better with the addition of 5 NVIDIA Grace A02 nodes (to the 40 Zen 5 nodes), Trovi got better now linking artifacts with relevant papers and videos, and resource discovery got better with the addition of VM flavors.
Join the Chameleon Team: Fall 2026 REU Openings
Two undergraduate research positions this fall
We're looking for two undergraduate researchers to join the Chameleon team this fall, funded by NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. One position works on Trovi and artifact reproducibility, the other on automated verification of testbed hardware. Roughly 10 hours a week, and remote applicants are welcome.
Chameleon Tutorial at PACT 2026
Join the Chameleon team in person at PACT 2026 in Chicago on October 19th for a hands-on tutorial covering the full experimental lifecycle on Chameleon—from resource discovery and hardware allocation to packaging reproducible artifacts on Trovi.