Networking Research & Infrastructure
Chameleon Cloud
Description
Chameleon is one of two mid-scale cloud testbeds funded by the NSFCloud program. It currently includes resources at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and consists of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5 petabytes of total disk space, and leverages 100 G/bps connections between the sites. Chameleon users are able to leverage large-scale and heterogeneous hardware, reconfigure the provisioned hardware partitions, and deploy their experiments on isolated partitions, free from interference from other experimenters. In order to broaden the set of experiments it supports, Chameleon is investing in experiments in reconfigurable Software Defined Networking (SDN) and higher bandwidth (40/100 Gbps) layer-2 WAN capabilities.
RENCI's Role
RENCI is designing and developing Chameleon’s new networking capabilities. RENCI’s extensive experience with NSF GENI and building ExoGENI makes it ideally suited for this project.