(Un)Obscured by Clouds — Applying Cloud Techniques to High Performance Systems Integration

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. Recently, the 73rd HPC User Forum took place in Chicago, Illinois. This update summarizes a presentation from that meeting entitled, Using Graphs for Unstructured Data, given by Keshav Pingali, William Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing, University of Texas at Austin.

In September 2021, the 77th HPC User Forum took place virtually. This update summarizes a presentation from that virtual conference given by Dr. Sean Peisert, computer security research lead and staff scientist and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He provided insights on security in high-performance computing environments, specifically about how emerging technologies and research can advance cybersecurity as an enabling capability as opposed to an impedance to optimal performance or other barrier for users.