Re: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 1 Mar 2010, at 19:08, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > These are all good things to keep in mind. > > There must be people out there with users who do biomed work with its > attendant confidentiality issues, or users who work on commercial > confidential data sets -- engineering or otherwise. When

Re: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dursi
These are all good things to keep in mind. There must be people out there with users who do biomed work with its attendant confidentiality issues, or users who work on commercial confidential data sets -- engineering or otherwise. What do those users do on your systems, and have you had to i

RE: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
Don't forget export controls, too. (both ITAR, internationally, and also (at least for US) Commerce department > -Original Message- > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On > Behalf Of Hearns, John > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:30 AM > To: beowulf@b

RE: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Hearns, John
I think Mark Hahn has given a lot of good advice here. It depends on the nature of the data. Is it: a) industrially confidential b) clinically confidential (ie patient identifiable data) c) government confidential (ie government department stats) d) Nuclear eyes-only If (d) you're on your own

Re: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Hahn
requirements for keeping data confidential.We expect these to be the it's critically important to pin down exactly what they mean by that. for instance, anything involving human subjects, not limited to clinical data, needs to be blinded. that's a standard requirement from any research-eth

Re: [Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Jon Forrest
On 3/1/2010 8:29 AM, Jonathan Dursi wrote: Are there good discussions of this somewhere? What resources do you point users to when they have such requirements, and what sorts of things can we put in place on our end to make life easier for such users without imposing new requirements on the rest

[Beowulf] confidential data on public HPC cluster

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dursi
Hi; We're a fairly typical academic HPC centre, and we're starting to have users talk to us about using our new clusters for projects that have various requirements for keeping data confidential.We expect these to be the first of many requests, so we want to think now about how we can and

Re: [Beowulf] which mpi library should I focus on?

2010-03-01 Thread Brock Palen
Just as a follow up to this message the MPICH2 show is now out, if you want to hear Bill and Rusty talk about MPICH2, what it does and where it came from: http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-28-mpich2.html Thanks Brock Palen www.umich.edu/~brockp Center for Advanced Computing bro..