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

[Haryadi Gunawi]

Hi again everyone,

Following up on my previous email below, if you are a faculty member and
you are interested in forming a small group that has a closer engagement
with the Chameleon team, please do let me know.

This small group will:
- Give advice on what future storage capabilities Chameleon should provide
- Occasionally write blogs on the Chameleon site on how your research uses
Chameleon storage instances
- Co-organize "storage hackathon" (virtually); e.g. packaging/reproducing
complex storage experiments

The time commitment will be made very minimal.

Cheers,
-- Har



On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 4:59 AM Haryadi Gunawi <haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>
> 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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