Secure Web-Based Access for Productive Supercomputing

The US Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) communities are increasingly in need of access to highly capable computing, networking, storage, and software resources from their user enclaves that are administratively prevented from installation of applications due to malicious software risks. Until the advent of the HPC Portal, access to HPCMP resources required user-level installation of a Kerberos-based authentication package to enable research, development, test, evaluation, and acquisition engineering workflows. In addition to the HPC Portal addressing these issues, the growth of computing capability has resulted in data generation that hasn't been matched by network bandwidth improvements, which in turn prevents the transfer of large datasets in a timely manner. Hence, an opportunity is available to address issues of both security concerns and in situ data processing.