[Storage-research-list] New Storage Capabilities for Research on NSF-Funded Chameleon

[Haryadi Gunawi]

Dear storage research community,

Chameleon <http://www.chameleoncloud.org> is an NSF-funded platform for
computer science systems research and teaching that has served over 6,300
users in the last 6 years, and was recently extended by the NSF till the
end of 2024. Chameleon has a Jupyter integration, allowing researchers to
package experiments and share them on our sharing portal, Trovi
<https://chameleoncloud.org/experiment/share/>. Researchers can also link
to their experiment in a paper or poster, allowing interested users to run
it with our new feature, Daypass
<https://chameleoncloud.org/blog/2022/01/24/interactive-science-made-easy-with-chameleon-daypass/>
.

In the past few months, we’ve upgraded storage capabilities so experiments
needing more storage capacity or performing experiments on storage itself
are now possible. Two
<https://www.chameleoncloud.org/hardware/node/sites/uc/clusters/chameleon/nodes/6f8e4223-5141-479d-a452-5f4484cdaeb8>
nodes
<https://www.chameleoncloud.org/hardware/node/sites/uc/clusters/chameleon/nodes/9a3d528e-b7ed-407e-bbf0-4bac74161204>
have been upgraded with 2x Intel 7.68TB PCIe4.0 SSDs
<https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/205382/intel-ssd-d7p5510-series-7-68tb-2-5in-pcie-4-0-x4-3d4-tlc.html>,
and two
<https://www.chameleoncloud.org/hardware/node/sites/uc/clusters/chameleon/nodes/4ad28a72-c19d-47d1-ae09-e54b77ed39d1>
others
<https://www.chameleoncloud.org/hardware/node/sites/uc/clusters/chameleon/nodes/7ed407a7-98dd-4708-bf32-9e0ab50c9f68>
now have 2x Corsair 2TB m.2 SSDs
<https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/Categories/Products/Storage/M-2-SSDs/Force-Series%E2%84%A2-Gen-4-PCIe-NVMe-M-2-SSD/p/CSSD-F2000GBMP600#tab-tech-specs>
while a new consumer SSD has been installed into node P3-SSD-010
<https://chameleoncloud.org/hardware/node/sites/uc/clusters/chameleon/nodes/7ed407a7-98dd-4708-bf32-9e0ab50c9f68/>
for additional storage experimentation. We also now have nodes with a
variety of interesting NVME disks available! All of these nodes have
PCIe4.0, and are connected to a 200Gb/s HDR infiniband switch. Find out
more information on storage configurations here
<https://chameleoncloud.org/blog/2021/10/26/announcing-new-hardware-for-chiuc/>.
There’s still more to come! Keep an eye out for Xilinx/Samsung SmartSSDs,
with FPGAs onboard!
<https://www.xilinx.com/applications/data-center/computational-storage/smartssd.html>

Interested in trying it out? Create an account
<https://auth.chameleoncloud.org/auth/realms/chameleon/login-actions/registration?client_id=portal-prod&tab_id=xaYIDDeDFfs>
and apply for an allocation to start using all of the resources on the
testbed! In need of inspiration? The Chameleon blog
<https://chameleoncloud.org/blog/> features user research
<https://chameleoncloud.org/blog/category/user-experiments/> published at
SIGSOFT, Supercomputing, CCGrid and more!

If you have any questions, please email us at contact at chameleoncloud.org
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