Top HPC Players: It's Time To Get Serious About Security
HPCwire, March 9th, 2023
Time's up: nearly everyone agrees it's about time to become serious about bringing security safeguards to high-performance computing systems, which has been largely ignored in the need for speed.
A working group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last month published a high-performance computing security model that is a blueprint for operators to protect supercomputers from hacks and malicious actors.
Security has played second fiddle to horsepower in HPC systems as implementing security layers could slow down supercomputers. Operators typically want to squeeze the maximum performance out of systems. HPC users have also complained that system vendors do not prioritize security as system vendors are more interested in meeting performance benchmarks as stated in contracts.