[hpc-announce] CFP for S-HPC 2024 workshop at SC 2024

[Dutta, Sankha B]

S-HPC 2024
                      Third Annual Workshop on Cyber Security in High
                                  Performance Computing
                                 Sunday November 17, 2024
                                  Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

       Held in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing,
          Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC24), Nov 17-22, 2024, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
                               Paper Submission: August 1st, 2024
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Overview:
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Security in multi-user, large-scale computing endeavors, including High-Performance
Computing (HPC) and Cloud, has traditionally been an "operational" challenge (i.e., restrict
access and usage to certified users). However, as more areas of public interest come to rely on
such computing capabilities and infrastructures, a hands-off approach to security in favor of
performance and power is becoming imprudent at best. Paired with HPC?s and Cloud
computing?s roles as early technology adopters and providers, a new set of early target-worthy
vulnerabilities are emerging that are not necessarily found in other computing scenarios that
operate with more established technologies.

In addition to early adoption vulnerabilities, the exploits specific to emerging large-scale
computing arise from acute hardware heterogeneity, novel network technologies/topologies,
massive resource management orchestration including power consumption.  On the software
side, potential vulnerabilities stem from heavy reliance on open-source software developed by
volunteer programmers, experimental software not hardened by numerous deployments and
rigorous processes, and dusty deck software deployed with a lack of regular maintenance.  In
combination with the commercial, single-node exploits, these vulnerabilities open fertile new
attack surfaces.

This workshop focuses on threats and solutions across the HPC hardware/software stack. These
threats include weaknesses in current and future architectural designs, escalation of privileges
through data extraction or computation manipulation, and intentional misuse of resources across
scientific instruments feeding HPC machines.

Topics:
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This workshop will focus on but will not be limited to the topics listed below.

*              Data privacy related to emerging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models
*              Data provenance in large-scale and distributed computing workflows
*              Attack surfaces of HPC and distributed computing ecosystems
*              Attack surfaces of HPC data feeding instruments and sensors
*              Attack detection methods and tools and their effectiveness in HPC systems
*              Tradeoffs between HPC performance, power, and security
*              Security enhanced co-design of HPC systems
*              Security enhanced operation of HPC systems
*              Security enhanced prescriptive programming of HPC systems

Submission Guidelines:
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Full submission will be 10 pages long (no including bibliography) using the same format as the
SC24 conference (i.e., using the IEEE conference template).  All submitted papers will undergo a
rigorous review process and each will have at least three reviews by members of the program
committee. Papers will be accepted based on their technical contributions. Submission will be
made through SC submission site through Linking (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://submissions.supercomputing.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!fbyTpZQFlycPlre2vshLP9M0T1g6yzn00mVKsBRPGH8kcWMtSgwrj-yVS4juRw64r9v1_ZdwGw0BIFegNxJbZaL3EmjAxreqOQ$ . )
Accepted papers will be published with the ACM Computer Society in the ACM Digital Library.
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop.
In person presentations are highly preferred unless extenuating circumstances are presented.

*              Paper Submission: August 1st, 2024
*              Paper Notification: September 3rd, 2024
*              Final Paper Due: September 25th, 2024

Organizing Committees:
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General Chairs:

*              Andres Marquez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
*              Yang Guo, NIST
*              Sean Peisert, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
*              Kevin J. Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
*              Nael B Abu-Ghazaleh, University of California Riverside

Program Co-Chairs:

*              Joseph Manzano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Publication Chair:

*              Yuede Ji, University of North Texas

Diversity Chair:

*              Oceane Bel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Web Chair:

*              Haipeng Cai, Washington State University

Publicity Chair:

*              Sankha Dutta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory