Joint HPC Cloud Security Workshop @ SCA 2019
12 March, 2019
Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Room 328
12 March, 2019
Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Room 328
Theme: HPC Futures – Hyperscalers, Exa, AI, Quantum and Beyond
There are a plethora of HPC Cloud offerings on the market, but are they all the same? Listen to AWS, Alibaba and Microsoft speak about their HPC Cloud before delving into an intriguing panel discussion on how they trade-off security provisioning for the HPC workload they support. Join us in this half-day workshop on 12 March 2019 @ SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2019 to gain greater insights into HPC Cloud security.
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There are a plethora of HPC Cloud offerings on the market, but are they all the same? Listen to AWS, Alibaba and Microsoft speak about their HPC Cloud before delving into an intriguing panel discussion on how they trade-off security provisioning for the HPC workload they support. Join us in this half-day workshop on 12 March 2019 @ SupercomputingAsia (SCA) 2019 to gain greater insights into HPC Cloud security.
For more information, visit here.
Register for the event at: https://www.sc-asia.org/registration/
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Speakers & Panelists
Jang Thye CHENGChief Architect and Head, Digital eXperience Center, Fujitsu Singapore
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Jang Thye joined Fujitsu Singapore in June 2015 as Chief Architect. In his current role, he is responsible for driving strategic technology initiatives and oversees all aspects of solution and architecture design with various delivery teams to deliver a robust ICT portfolio to customers. With over 20 years of professional experience in the industry, Jang Thye has held numerous positions including Systems Engineer, IT Architect, Senior Business Development Manager, and Systems Architect. Prior to Fujitsu, Jang Thye was Chief Architect at CA Technologies where he led the Asia Pacific/Japan (APJ) Solution Architect team in engaging major accounts in the APJ market. His key focus was driving Mobile Application Technologies, particularly in areas such as security, social networking, and application development in the market. Jang Thye holds a Master of Science (Computer Science and Information Systems) and a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) (Computer Science and Information Systems), both from the National University of Singapore. Jang Thye is married and has 2 boys. Outside of work, Jang Thye has multiple interests, such as tennis, badminton, swimming, cycling, violin, harmonica, and Go (WeiQi).
Talk Synopsis Securing HPC Cloud: Learning from Securing Internet-of-Things (IoT) Security is often a trade-off between what is practical and what is really needed. As HPC workloads are transitioning to public cloud, it is interesting to see the lessons learned from securing many little devices and gateways that are connected to the cloud. IoT devices tend to be small in performance and data size, but what they are aggregating often contributes to the workload in HPC applications. This session discuss about the practical aspects of securing IoT, and the lessons learn will apply very well to securing HPC workloads on public cloud. |
Andrew HOWARDCloud Team Manager, National Computational Infrastructure Canberra Australia
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Andrew has many decades of hands-on technical, diplomatic and logistics experience covering a wide range of standard and bespoke technologies, languages and applications within Industry, Government, Academia and Research nationally and internationally.
He is a member of the APAN Program Committee, Co-Chair of the APAN E-Culture and Asia Pacific Research Platform working groups and the Lead judge on the SCA19 Data Movement Challenge. Through his work on the InfiniCortex and InfiniCloud projects, Andrew has designed and delivered the next generation of high speed data transfer and distributed computation throughout the Asia Pacific region and around the world. |
Jon LAUDirector of Business Development, APAC, Cloud Security Alliance
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Jon LAU is the Director of Business Development for APAC at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
Before joining CSA, Jon was the Deputy Director at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore, which was established in 2015 to make petascale supercomputing accessible by academic, research and industry users in Singapore. He oversaw the Business Development and Strategic Policy and Planning departments, where he drove the adoption of Supercomputing, and managed strategic programmes and activities including HPC training, technology scanning, industry partnerships, and international collaborations with other international supercomputing centres. He represented Singapore at international Supercomputing forums to present on the HPC landscape in Singapore. Together with the team, he led the organising of the inaugural SupercomputingAsia 2018 conference which was catalytic in enhancing the HPC ecosystem in Singapore. Jon started his career focusing on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Information Technology Institute (the applied Research & Development arm of the National Computer Board). He was involved in machine learning projects and developed rule-based systems for government agencies. He was also part of the team that trained international delegates in AI under the Third Country Training Programme organised by the Japan-Singapore AI Centre. He then went on to help spearhead Grid Computing in Singapore from 2005 to 2007 at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR. He represented Singapore at the Asia Pacific Grid Policy Management Authority working on Public-Key Infrastructure policies for trusted resource sharing for the Large Hadron Collider Computational Grid project. In 2007, Jon moved from A*STAR to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore where he worked with the industry to leverage on Grid Computing by establishing Grid Service Providers via a Call-for-Collaboration. He then went on to help strategize and establish the first secured Government Cloud (G-Cloud) in the region in 2012 for Singapore government's internet-facing services. He was involved with the management of G-Cloud contract which included adding new services such as Content Delivery Network, Internet Clean Pipe, and Web Application Firewall services. He joined NSCC in 2015. Jon obtained his Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1994 and Masters of Technology (Knowledge Engineering) also from NUS in 1999. Jon enjoys cycling and running and is involved with Dads for Life programme. Talk Synopsis Going Forward – The HPC Cloud Security Stakeholders’ Platform This session shares on how a HPC Cloud Security Stakeholder's Platform could benefit our partners to steer the directions of HPC cloud security initiatives to achieve the objectives of enhancing the level of assurance and trust of HPC cloud infrastructures and applications to facilitate wider adoption. |
Dr. Hing-Yan LEEExecutive Vice President
APAC Cloud Security Alliance |
Hing Yan LEE has over 30 years of ICT working experience in both the public and private sectors. He was global director of the STAR program at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) for 6 months in 2017. Prior to that, he was Director of National Cloud Computing Office at Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) for 9+ years, where he was responsible for the national program for, inter alia, developing the cloud ecosystem, promoting cloud adoption by government agencies and private enterprises, and building a trusted environment (which included developing the Multi-Tier Cloud Security standards and Cloud Outage Incident Response guidelines).
He was previously Deputy Director of the National Grid Office at the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Principal Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Director of Knowledge Lab and Deputy Director of Japan-Singapore Artificial Intelligence Centre at the Kent Ridge Digital Labs as well as Deputy Director at Information Technology Institute (the applied R&D arm of the National Computer Board). He oversaw and managed industry collaborations and applied R&D in machine language translation, spoken language dialogue, expert systems, knowledge discovery, data mining, data visualization, and other knowledge-driven efforts. Hing Yan co-founded two high-tech companies - Language Tapestry and eXage. He was an adjunct associate professor at the National University of Singapore, served on the School of Digital Media & Infocomm Technology Advisory Committee at the Singapore Polytechnic, Engineering Accreditation Board team member (2014), co-chair of the National Infocomm Competency Framework Technical Committee on Cloud Computing as well as member of the Cloud Computing Standards Coordinating Task Force of the Singapore Infocomm Standards Committee. He was also a member of the NatSteel Corporate R&D Advisory Panel, an advisor/member to the Singapore National Archives Board, and the Australia-Singapore Joint ICT Council. Hing Yan is a Fellow and Vice President of the Cloud Chapter in the Singapore Computer Society. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science. He previously studied at Imperial College London in UK where he obtained a BSc (Eng.) with 1st Class Honours in Computing and MSc in Management Science. |
Dr. Fang-Pang LINSenior Research Fellow, National Center for High Performance Computing
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Dr Fang-Pang Lin is the Senior Research Fellow at National Center for High Performance Computing and Joint Appointment Professor at National Central University of Taiwan. He is one of the key developers in developing the national cyber-infrastructure of Taiwan, namely Knowledge Innovation National Grid. He co-founded the Global Lake Ecological Observational Network and Global Coral Reef Environmental Observational Network. His major research focuses on cyberinfrastructure for long term environmental and ecological observation. Recent development includes Taiwan Earth Science Observatory Knowledgebase, EU FP7 Fish4Knowledge collaboration, real-time wide area flood monitoring and government big data. The efforts also lead to US-East Asia collaborations to enable transnational cyberinfrastructure applications, which based on shared software defined systems applying to issues on disaster management, environmental monitoring and simulation, and smart cities.
Dr. Fang-Pang Lin obtained his PhD in University of Wales at Swansea, UK. He worked in Rolls-Royce University Computing Center in Oxford University for his postdoctoral research. He joined NCHC in Oct., 1997 and has been working in numerical simulation and software engineering regarding application integration. He was the winner of 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award in Science and Technology, the Executive Yuan of Taiwan. |
Gavin LIUSolution Architect, Alibaba Cloud Singapore
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Gavin Liu is currently a solutions architect at Alibaba Cloud where he helps customers design their infrastructure architecture in cloud and build their application with elastic, secure components in cloud.
Gavin has over 10 years of work experience in a variety of IT fields such as Application Delivery, Disaster Recovery Data Center design, Cloud Computing, Networking, Storage, Security, etc. and throughout these years, obtained all the ACP (Alibaba Cloud Professional) Certifications (Computing, Security and Big Data). In 2006, Gavin graduated from Fudan University (Shanghai, China) with Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics. Talk Synopsis Cloud First Strategy – How to Secure It? When a customer switches the applications from traditional on-premise environment to the cloud, everything changes, especially in terms of security challenge. With no more physical border around the data center, how do we ensure protection? Hackers have changed from local physical users to anything including laptop, tablet or even mobile phone. In this scenario, how do we defend attacks on the application level? Find out more during the session. |
Guan Sin ONGHead of New Services and Cybersecurity, National
Supercomputing Centre, Singapore |
ONG Guan Sin has over twenty years of diverse experience in the IT industry, spanning roles in IT management of end-user organisations, fast-paced startup businesses and IT vendors. The companies he has worked for include DBS Bank, National University of Singapore, i-Email.net/i-DNS.net, SCS Ltd (now NCS Pte Ltd) and Technology Reserve (Canada). He has experience working with the processes in IETF and SPEC.
Currently serving as head of new services and cybersecurity in National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore, he is chartered to promote the adoption of high-performance computing (HPC) by the industry with the appropriate security provisions and standards. He also sees opportunity in using HPC for security applications. He believes that IT security must align with the business goals and the appetite for risks of the organisation concerned. Talk Synopsis Introduction to HPC Cloud Security Working Group The Cloud Security Alliance's High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud Security Working Group (WG) was recently formed with the intention to develop a holistic security framework for cloud infrastructure architected for HPC needs. Due to the performance required by HPC workloads, ‘close to metal’ operations are often demanded. At the same time, security of workloads is also an area of concern. The WG seeks to work on a set of recommendations to secure HPC cloud, while retaining the performance HPC is known for. This session introduces the WG and scope, and CSA Research in general. |
Vincent QUAHRegional Head for Education, Research, Healthcare and Not-For-Profit Organizations, APAC Global Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
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Vincent Quah is responsible for business development with education institutions, research and not-for-profit organizations. He works with educators and students, research scientists and non-for-profit personnel in leveraging AWS Cloud services to save costs, accelerate innovation, and increase organizational agility that better serve their missions.
Based in Singapore, Vincent Quah has more than 25 years of experience working in senior roles across the education (K12 and tertiary) and learning sectors, life sciences and healthcare industries, as well as high performance computing projects across Asia Pacific. Talk Synopsis The Science of Cloud Computing in Scientific Computing Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been used to solve some of the world’s most challenging computing problems – engineering simulations, financial risks analyses, molecular dynamics, weather prediction and many more. In recent years, there have been an accelerated use of AWS in this area that requires a higher bar of protection and security, for example in precision medicine, hosting of medical records and confidential data sets. In this session, we will share the principles we have adopted to allow researchers strengthen their security posture and use AWS confidently to manage and work on confidential and sensitive information. |
Jeffery TAYSolution Architect, Microsoft
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Jeffery has been working in the education industry for the past 13 years, designing, implementing and securing large scale campus-wide solutions. For the past 2 years, he has devoted his time to helping the industry transform their business by architecting education and research workloads to run securely on the cloud, creating new capabilities and introducing new business models to the industry.
Talk Synopsis Is Secured High Performance Computing Possible? Security and research are key in the current time and age where we are seeking to advance our knowledge, solving greater research problems and yet having to continually defend against cyber breaches. This session will cover the current limitations faced by supercomputing centers around the world and how the cloud can step in to help improve efficiencies, protect research data and promote greater collaboration between institutes. |
Haojie ZHUANGDirector of Research, APAC, Cloud Security Alliance
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Haojie is Director of Research for APAC at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), where his current portfolio includes delivering initiatives from CSA Working Groups, CSA Corporate Members, standards developing organizations, governments, and other strategic partners.
Prior to joining CSA, Haojie was Manager at the Intelligent Computing Lab, Technology Solutions Division of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore. During this tenure, he led the development of artificial intelligence strategic roadmaps, and collaborative projects with industry and research community partners to co-develop machine learning driven solutions, aimed at tackling productivity and sectoral challenges. When Haojie was with the National Cloud Computing Office under the former Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, he conceptualized & managed data-related initiatives for industry, and led awareness creation efforts for cloud computing in Singapore. Haojie obtained his B.Eng. (Hons) in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore, beginning his career with a brief stint as an events photographer, before getting involved in the research & design of networking protocols for multi-hop underwater networks at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR). Whenever possible, Haojie prefers inline skating to walking. Talk Synopsis Introduction to HPC Cloud Security Working Group The Cloud Security Alliance's High Performance Computing (HPC) Cloud Security Working Group (WG) was recently formed with the intention to develop a holistic security framework for cloud infrastructure architected for HPC needs. Due to the performance required by HPC workloads, ‘close to metal’ operations are often demanded. At the same time, security of workloads is also an area of concern. The WG seeks to work on a set of recommendations to secure HPC cloud, while retaining the performance HPC is known for. This session introduces the WG and scope, and CSA Research in general. |
Time |
Duration |
Activity |
1330 - 1340 |
10mins |
Welcome Remarks (presentation slides) Dr. Hing-Yan LEE, Executive Vice President APAC, Cloud Security Alliance |
1340 - 1405 |
25 mins |
Cloud First Strategy – How to Secure It? (presentation slides) Gavin LIU, Solution Architect, Alibaba Cloud Singapore |
1405 - 1430 |
25 mins |
The Science of Cloud Computing in Scientific Computing Vincent QUAH, Regional Head for Education, Research, Healthcare and Not-For-Profit Organizations, APAC Global Public Sector, Amazon Web Services |
1430 - 1455 |
25 mins |
Is Secured High Performance Computing Possible? (presentation slides) Jeffery TAY, Solution Architect, Microsoft |
1455 - 1520 |
25 mins |
Securing HPC Cloud: Learning from Securing Internet-of-Things (IoT) (presentation slides) Jang Thye CHENG, Chief Architect and Head, Digital eXperience Center, Fujitsu Singapore |
1530 - 1600 |
30 mins |
Tea Break |
1600 - 1620 |
20 mins |
Introduction to HPC Cloud Security Working Group (presentation slides) Guan Sin ONG, Co-Chair, HPC Cloud Security Working Group & Haojie ZHUANG, Director of Research, APAC Cloud Security Alliance |
1620 - 1640 |
20 mins |
Going Forward – The HPC Cloud Security Stakeholders' Platform (presentation slides) Jon LAU, Director of Business Development, APAC Cloud Security Alliance |
1640 - 1720 |
40 mins |
Panel Discussion - Differences in Security between HPC and HPC Cloud. Moderator:
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1720 - 1730 |
10 mins |
Q&A/ Session Closure |
NOTE: Schedule subject to change
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Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Room 328
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