Many things can go wrong when deploying a large cluster of nodes. We thought it would be helpful for some of you to include some useful tips and tricks for deploying 20+ node clusters when some of the nodes may cause you problems.

Happy April 1st! Did we really replace all of our nodes with GPUs? I'm afraid that such news is unsubstantiated and we'll get to the bottom of who is spreading such rumors. However, we have some cool new features around our object storage and floating (public) IPs, and some information about upcoming big changes inside.

Have you ever lost your data after your instance failed, or are your instances failing to launch with a custom image? You may be handling your data incorrectly in the cloud. Read on to learn how to keep your data persistent and your custom images small.

We were busy meeting with you all at the Chameleon User Meeting in Austin, but in between gorging ourselves on Texan BBQ and Mexican food, we conjured up some new things for you to enjoy. (If you typically stop reading at the summary, then just skip to filling out our new user survey for 2019, which will help us prioritize what shiny new hardware to purchase and what features to work on. We won't tell.)

IPv4 address exhaustion, along with natural resources depletion and global warming, has long been recognized as one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity. Read on to learn how to keep floating IPs afloat! 

To help you start the year off on the right foot we offer lots of improvements in VLAN management, experiment automation, and usability. And we are really looking forward to meeting many of you at the User Meeting in Austin next week and discussing all the innovations in person! 

The holidays are over and you’re probably easing back into your normal pre-festivities routines. We’re happy to announce some new testbed capabilities and features to make your life (a bit) easier while you wrestle with those pesky New Year’s resolutions.

Lots of SDN capability upgrades, new performance metrics, updated cloud trace data and general improvements all around! Way more fun than purging your inbox of all those Cyber Monday promo mails from sites you're pretty sure you never signed up at.

We would like to invite you to come to the Chameleon User Meeting to be held on February 6-7, 2019 in Austin, TX at the Texas Advanced Computing Center on the University of Texas J.J. Pickle Research Campus.

New Chameleon Associate Site, new experimental services, lots of upgrades and Call for Presenations and Demonstrations at the Chameleon User Meeting -- there is no end of goodies we have for you this month!