Automating Account Management on an Academic HPC System with Authentication Federation

Junya Nakamura; Masatoshi Tsuchiya

doi:10.52731/iee.v5.i2.438

Junya Nakamura Toyohashi University of Technology
Masatoshi Tsuchiya Toyohashi University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52731/iee.v5.i2.438

Keywords: authentication federation, high-performance computing, user management, web service

Abstract

There is increasing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) cluster systems because more and more computational resources are necessary to carry out large-scale simulations and machine learning, which are a crucial part of research and business today. There are two choices for HPC cluster systems: academic HPC cluster systems and public cloud services. Academic HPC cluster systems can be used with reasonable usage fees, although they take a long time until the cluster system is ready to use, because of its user registration procedure. On the other hand, public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services can be used immediately, but the usage fees are expensive compared to academic systems. To fill the gaps between them, we propose an academic HPC cluster system with automated user registration that allows on-demand HPC cluster use.

Author Biographies

Junya Nakamura, Toyohashi University of Technology

Junya Nakamura is an assistant professor at Information and Media Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and Ph.D degree in information science from Osaka University in 2014. His research interests include distributed algorithms and distributed systems such as Byzantine consensus and Byzantine fault tolerance.

Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Toyohashi University of Technology

Masatoshi Tsuchiya received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. of Informatics degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2007, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of the Computer Center, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, which was re-constructed to the Information Media Center in 2005, from 2004 to 2014, and has been an Associate Professor of the Information Media Center since 2014. His major interest in research is natural language processing.

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