Making it More Secure
Jason C. Christopher, Gary Jung, Christopher Doane · Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning) · 2019
As High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics become more commonplace, we see researchers applying these tools in new areas. Indeed, in the past few years, we've seen the use of HPC in diverse areas such as archeology, public policy, and digital humanities. So it comes as no surprise that many life science researchers are now approaching us to use large scale computation and data analytics on their sensitive data sets, such as de-identified patient or genomics data, for the purposes of scientific inquiry. At UC Berkeley, this has become a pressing issue, as existing faculty need a place to do research on sensitive data. And we knew of at least one instance where it affected the campus' ability to recruit a new faculty member. We had a clear imperative for action!