Program Committee

Mine Altunay, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Galen Wesley Arnold, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

David Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Scott Campbell, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Carrie Gates, CA Technologies

Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Alex Malin, Los Alamos National Lab

Jim Marsteller, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Jim Mellander, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sean Peisert, University of California Davis

Gene Rackow, Argonne National Lab

Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Robin Sommer, International Computer Science Institute

Von Welch, Indiana University

CLHS13 Call For Papers

Providing effective and non-intrusive security within a HPC environment provides a number of challenges for both researchers and operational personnel.  What constitutes HPC has expanded to include cloud computing, 100G networking, cross-site integration, and web 2.0 based interfaces for job submission and reporting, increasing the complexity of the aggregate system dramatically.  This growing complexity and it's new issues is set against a backdrop of routine user and application attacks, which remain surprisingly effective over time.

The CLHS workshop will focus on the problems inherent in securing contemporary large-scale compute and storage systems.  To provide some clarification we have broken this out into four general areas or questions.  First is Attribution: who is doing what in terms of process activity and/or network traffic?  Second is looking beyond the interactive nodes: what is going on in the computing pool?  Third involves job scheduler activity and usage: what is being run, how has it is been submitted and is this activity abnormal?  Finally a more philosophical topic of why securing complex systems is so difficult and what can be done about it.  While these specific areas are interesting starting points for papers and presentations, any original and interesting topic will be considered.

In order to best facilitate this, a two-track approach of research papers and state of the practice write-ups will be used.  We will ask participants in the research paper track to add a detailed section describing their ongoing data needs, while for the state of the practice track, we will ask that a section be added which describes possible data sharing opportunities their facility may have with individual researcher’s sites perspective.  Finally the ending track will be a combined lightning round and data exchange where workshop participants can share short presentations on interesting but incomplete works as well as describe what data they have to share or need.

Research Papers Track

Besides the general class of problems described in the overview, the following should be considered a set of example topics that we are looking for in the research section track.

• • Accounting and Audit
  • Authentication
  • Cloud Security
  • Data and Application Security
  • Data/System Integrity
  • Database Security
  • Identity Management
  • Intrusion and Attack Detection
  • Intrusion and Attack Response
  • Secure Networking
  • Secure System Design
  • Security Monitoring & Management
  • Security in Untrusted & Adversarial Environments and Systems
  • Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures
  • Security Visualization

Please not that these example topics are in the context of the unique set of problems and difficulties within the HPC space.  We will ask participants in the research paper track to add a section describing in some detail their ongoing and future data needs.  This is principally to improve communication

State of the Practice

Lightning Round!

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