Towards Security Hardening of Scientific Demand-Driven and Pipelined Distributed Computing Systems
Serguei A. Mokhov · 2008
This work highlights and takes aim at the most critical security aspects required for two different types of distributed systems for scientific computation. It covers two open-source systems written in Java: a demand-driven system - general intensional programming system (GIPSY) and a pipelined system - distributed modular audio recognition framework (DMARF), which are the distributed scientific computational engines used as case studies with respect to the security aspects. More specific goals include data/demand integrity, data/demand origin authentication, confidentiality, high availability, and malicious code detection. We address some of the goals to a degree, some with the Java data security framework (JDSF) as a work-in- progress.