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Title
Time division multiplexing of network access by security groups in high performance computing environments
Description
It is commonly known that High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are most frequently used by multiple users for batch job, parallel computations. Less well known, however, are the numerous HPC systems servicing data so sensitive that administrators enforce either a) sequential job processing - only one job at a time on the entire system, or b) physical separation - devoting an entire HPC system to a single project until recommissioned. The driving forces behind this type of security are numerous but share the common origin of data so sensitive that measures above and beyond industry standard are used to ensure information security. This paper presents a network security solution that provides information security above and beyond industry standard, yet still enabling multi-user computations on the system. This paper's main contribution is a mechanism designed to enforce high level time division multiplexing of network access (Time Division Multiple Access, or TDMA) according to security groups. By dividing network access into time windows, interactions between applications over the network can be prevented in an easily verifiable way.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- Ferguson, Joshua (Author)
- Gupta, Sandeep Ks (Thesis advisor)
- Varsamopoulos, Georgios (Committee member)
- Ball, George (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
viii, 50 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17929
Statement of Responsibility
by Joshua Ferguson
Description Source
Viewed on Dec. 6, 2013
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2013
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-45)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Computer science
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- 2013-07-12 06:24:30
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- 2021-08-30 01:41:34
- 2 years 8 months ago
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