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Technology · 2024 · English

High-Performance Computing Security: Architecture, Threat Analysis, and Security Posture

by Yang Guo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Lowell Wofford

About this book

High-performance computing systems connect powerful processing resources, shared storage, management services and many different users. This NIST guide examines the security problems created by that architecture and describes how a reference model can help administrators organize protections across the system.

The report separates an HPC environment into functional zones, analyzes threats and discusses controls for access, networking, data and workloads. It also considers cloud and hybrid deployments, where responsibilities and isolation boundaries extend beyond a single facility. The complete February 2024 publication includes its architectural diagrams, supporting references and discussion of least privilege and defense in depth.

Yang Guo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Lowell Wofford, Rickey Gregg, Gary Key, Antwan Clark, Catherine Hinton, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Ryan Adamson, Aron Warren, Purushotham Bangalore, Erik Deumens and Csilla Farkas. High-Performance Computing Security: Architecture, Threat Analysis, and Security Posture. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-223. Original publication and source notices retained.