“Cloud Computing with Chameleon” by Mark Powers ’19, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Chameleon is a cloud testbed for computer science research and education. In this talk, I will introduce cloud computing, and show how it is used at Chameleon, including discussion of some use cases of cloud computing. I’ll give a demonstration of how to get started with Chameleon, and the different ways to interact with cloud resources. Afterwards, I’ll answer questions about cloud computing, or any questions about my graduate school experience.

Bio: Mark Powers is a software developer working on the Chameleon Cloud project, through the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He graduated from Hope College in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. While at Hope, Mark worked with Dr. Ryan McFall on the JanDY survey system, and with Dr. Charles A. Cusack on graph pebbling. Mark completed a Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. During the summer of 2020, Mark was the instructor of Introduction to Programming at UW-Madison.