JSC & Google: The sensitive edge of cloud and HPC

Thursday 10 Nov 2022, 12:00 → 21:00 Europe/Berlin

Rotunda (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)

Processing of sensitive data, either in the cloud or on HPC resources, is an area of active research and development. Google and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre are organising a workshop including talks and discussions to enable information exchange regarding current challenges and progress towards solutions. The topics span the spectrum from end-user experience to infrastructure and include: platform operations, sensitive data processing for brain sciences, hybrid cloud and HPC infrastructure deployment, and confidential compute solutions.

Google as a long-standing global player in research, as well as in cloud computing and HPC would be a perfect fit to strengthen the science at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. With our ability to scale whenever needed, our high-performance infrastructure is secure and reliable for cloud computing, data analytics & machine learning.Google provides technologies to anonymize data, keeping data encrypted while being processed and distribute workloads between on-premise and Cloud resources.

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre contributes with its HPC and Cloud infrastructure to the EBRAINS research infrastructure, which is developed by the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP), as a cutting-edge research infrastructure that will allow scientific and industrial researchers to advance our knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing, and brain-related medicine.

 

Please note that it is not allowed to take any photos or videos during the event, as confidential information might be displayed.

 

Wearing face masks is mandatory for on-site participants during the sessions due to the setup of tables and chairs in the room.

 

Remote participants can join through the following link: https://zoom.us/j/95405286153
The meeting passcode was sent by email to all registered participants on 9.11.2022.

12:00 Lunch

1 Introduction (Thomas Lippert)

2 HPC presentation with discussion

• New C3 architecture + RDMA (NDA)
• HPC Toolkit for infra deployment
• Cloud Batch (cloud-native scheduler, also for HPC)
• HPC on Kubernetes + Singularity with SLURM

3 EBRAINS RI stack + operations (Spiros Athanasiou)

4 Anthos (Google)

14:50 Coffee break

5 Sensitive data processing (Jan Fousek)

6 DLP (Kuba Rauch)

7 Confidential compute (Nelly Porter)

8 Open discussion

17:30 Transfer to Jülich

18:30 Dinner