High Performance Computing

Dear all,

Based on previous discussions and feedback, the Co-Chairs have helped to draft an outline of our first deliverable, 'State of Security Practices in HPC & HPC Cloud'. 

The deliverable will provide background on baseline and current security practice in the HPC / HPC Cloud industry, and the challenges faced by different HPC centres. After gaining better understanding of the landscape and current practice with the first deliverable, the WG can then move to work on security recommendations for HPC Cloud in subsequent deliverables.

Here is the link to the draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oRrtq8JTAlxJOCH2BUE3tiPQ8f5cVly9LpHtRXPiLfM/edit?usp=sharing

Please log in to your Google account before editing for tracking and crediting purposes. Chapters that require developing are:

4 HPC Cloud Use Scenarios

5 Security Challenges

7 Appendix (where the survey questions are at)

As a recap, the survey is to get insights into the state of security practices so keep this in mind while adding / amending the list of survey questions. The inputs could eventually be from the WG members yourselves, since everyone is already from various HPC-related backgrounds. 

Let's put in our contributions and review them on 10 September. Looking forward!

Best Regards,

Jane Chow