abstract: 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. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Computer Science 2013
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:17929 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Contributors | Ferguson, Joshua (Author), Gupta, Sandeep Ks (Advisor), Varsamopoulos, Georgios (Committee member), Ball, George (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 59 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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