P59: Secure Enclaves: An Isolation-Centric Approach for
Creating Secure High-Performance Computing Environments
SessionPoster Reception
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Event Type
ACM Student Research Competition
Poster
Reception
TimeTuesday, November 14th5:15pm -
7pm
LocationFour Seasons Ballroom
DescriptionHigh performance computing environments are used for a
wide variety of workloads. These systems may process
data at various security levels but in so doing are
often enclaved at the highest security posture, which
may limit usability or performance. The traditional
approach used to provide isolation is effective at the
creation of secure enclaves, but poses significant
challenges with respect to the use of shared
infrastructure in HPC environments. We evaluate the use
of system-level (i.e., hypervisor-based) and operating
system level (i.e., containers) virtualization as well
as software defined networking (SDN) as possible
mechanisms for secure, isolation-centric enclaves
(secure enclaves). We describe our approach to secure
HPC enclaves and provide benchmark results for three
focus areas (compute, network and data storage) where
isolation mechanisms are most significant.
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