KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab presents:
Supercomputing, Cloud and Edge Security Models Convergence using APIs and Container Technologies
Thursday, March 3, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
The KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab (KSL) invites all KAUST faculty, students researchers and staff to attend a unique seminar presented by Sadaf Alam, an expert in the field of supercomputing and operations services in HPC and Cloud.
Scientific applications and workflows today are exploiting a range of distributed resources including supercomputing, cloud, and edge technologies, such as scientific instruments. User access and security models across these resource domains vary considerably resulting in overhead for the development of scientific applications and workflow engines, often leading to productivity losses. Recently, the adoption of zero-trust security models has accelerated due to the prevalent usage of off-premises cloud and edge technologies. The model relies on having multiple layers of trust and verification for applications, users, devices, and networks. HPC applications, networks, storage, and access controls have unique architectural features for delivering close-to-metal performance and achieving scalability.
In this talk, Sadaf will introduce motivating use cases, discuss challenges in adopting zero-trust security models for HPC and present solutions that they have developed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. These include a RESTful services gateway called FirecREST and a user-friendly, HPC container engine called Sarus.
A brief biography about the presenter:
Sadaf R. Alam is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. Dr. Alam studied computer science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she received her Ph.D. in 2004. Until March 2009, she was a computer scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. In her role as the CTO, she ensures end-to-end integrity of HPC systems and storage solutions and leads strategic projects at the center. She has held different roles at CSCS including group lead of future systems, chief architect and head of operations. She is a member of ACM, ACM-W, SIGHPC and Women in HPC.
For any questions, please contact Bilel Hadri : bilel.hadri@kaust.edu.sa.
Light refreshments will be served.
This opportunity is brought to you by the KAUST Core Labs & Research Infrastructure.