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Chameleon Cloud infrastructure offline May 8 - 10
by Mike Packard 01 May '15

01 May '15

Due to construction at the TACC datacenter, power will be cut from the Chameleon Cloud infrastructure from May 8, 2015 at 16:00 CDT until May 10 at 16:00 CDT. Both Alamo KVM (Futuregrid transition FG@Chameleon, https://horizon.chameleon.tacc.utexas.edu <https://horizon.chameleon.tacc.utexas.edu/>) & Technology Preview (https://ironic.chameleon.tacc.utexas.edu <https://ironic.chameleon.tacc.utexas.edu/>) clouds will be shut down during this time. The Chameleon web site (https://www.chameleoncloud.org <https://www.chameleoncloud.org/>) will remain up. All users should shut down their instances prior to the downtime; any left running will be stopped administratively. Users will be able to restart their instances after the downtime. Please submit a ticket to the Chameleon Help Desk (https://www.chameleoncloud.org/user/help/) if you have any questions about preparation for the outage. Regards, Mike Packard

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The Chameleon Technology Preview is ready!
by Pierre Riteau 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

We are delighted to announce that the Chameleon Technology Preview is ready for users (Happy Easter!) All Chameleon users can start using the Technology Preview; to start, follow the instructions in the User Guide at https://www.chameleoncloud.org/docs/user-guides/technology-preview-user-gui… The Technology Preview provides a first version of the bare metal reconfiguration capabilities of Chameleon: resource discovery, reservation, bare-metal provisioning, and monitoring. For the time being, we have deployed it on a modest number of nodes of the Alamo FutureGrid hardware. Come and give it a shot — and let us know about any and all things that need improvement!

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Chameleon now open to new users & Alamo cloud available
by Pierre Riteau 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

We are happy to share two Chameleon announcements with you today: new users can now sign up for a Chameleon account and our Alamo OpenStack is now available to all users! First, new users can now sign up for a Chameleon account. You can register at https://www.chameleoncloud.org/user/register/ Faculty and research staff from U.S.-based institutions can request PI eligibility when they register a Chameleon account. This allows to create new projects and invite other Chameleon users to them. If you migrated your FutureGrid account to Chameleon and would like to request PI eligibility, please file a help desk ticket via our web interface at https://www.chameleoncloud.org/help/ Second, the Alamo OpenStack cloud is now available. Get started by reading the user guide at https://www.chameleoncloud.org/docs/user-guides/alamo-user-guide/ Please note that the Hotel OpenStack cloud will be taken down for reconfiguration after December 15th. Any running instance will be terminated. It will reemerge as a FutureGrid@Chameleon resource before the end of the year. If you are currently using Hotel and would like to continue using cloud resources during the reconfiguration, we ask that you migrate to Alamo. If you need assistance in migrating images and volumes, please open a help desk ticket. If you don't need resources during the reconfiguration, you don't need to migrate since Hotel will be restored with your existing images and volumes. Welcome to Chameleon!

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First release of the Chameleon user portal
by Pierre Riteau 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

We are happy to announce the first release of the Chameleon user portal! It is available at https://www.chameleoncloud.org. At this time, the portal will be available to FutureGrid users only; users will be able to convert their FutureGrid projects and accounts to Chameleon projects and accounts. The former FutureGrid Hotel resource will continue to be available in its current configuration until December 15th. During this transition period, users will be able to continue using Hotel with their FutureGrid account until they create their Chameleon account, so that you can migrate between the two projects at your leisure. During this two week period, the reconfigured Alamo resource will come online initiating our FutureGrid@Chameleon offering: FutureGrid machines, configured as they were in FutureGrid, operated for our Chameleon users. Alamo will be accessible via Chameleon accounts only so make sure to convert your FutureGrid account ASAP and plan to use Alamo when Hotel is down. After December 15th, Hotel will be taken down for reconfiguration and will reemerge as a FutureGrid@Chameleon resource before the end of the year. And we find that the week after Thanksgiving we still have something to be thankful for: thank you for your patience!

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Opportunity to learn more about Chameleon
by Kate Keahey 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

There is a great opportunity to learn more about Chameleon and help shape the capabilities it will offer. We will hold an NSFCloud worksop on December 11-12 in Arlington, VA. The purpose of the workshop will be to: (1) inform the community about the two NSFCloud experimental facilities (Chameleon and CloudLab) and how they can be used for cloud computing research, and (2) provide an avenue for the community to influence the development of those facilities. We would like to invite you to submit a short (1-2 page) position paper describing your research experiments and the platform they require by October 31st. Workshop participation will be based on the submission of such position papers. More information about the workshop, including a link to the submission page can be found here: http://www.chameleoncloud.org/NSFCloudWorkshop/ We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop! Kate Keahey Mathematics and CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute, University of Chicago

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by None 31 Dec '69

31 Dec '69

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