The DTC Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC) is
pleased to announce that it has been awarded a three year, $600K grant
by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study critical issues in High
Performance Computing and Data Security. Congratulations to Professors
Andrew Odlyzko (DTC Director and Mathematics), Yongdae Kim (Computer
Science and Engineering), David Lilja (Head Electrical and Computer
Engineering) and the entire team at DISC. This award will complement
DISC’s research efforts.
NSF award information below
More information about DISC is available
at: DISC
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NSF Award Information
Integrated Infrastructure for Secure
and Efficient Long-Term Data Management
Principal Investigators: Andrew Odlyzko, Yongdae Kim, David
Lilja
Current storage and data archiving technologies are simply incapable of
satisfying the increasing demands for bandwidth and long-term data
security.
Archive systems have been identified as a key bottleneck in high-performance
storage systems. It is estimated that over 35 TB/hr (10GB/sec) of archive
bandwidth was needed by typical HPC applications in 2003, while the
required bandwidth is expected to grow to over 350 TB/hr in
2007!
The need to protect and preserve cryptographic keys in a long-term archive
also presents a major challenge since many unforeseen changes can occur
during the data’s lifetime. For instance, the user who originally
encrypted the data may be unknown or unavailable when the data is to be
decrypted. Furthermore, keys can become compromised as can the
cryptographic algorithms themselves. All of these issues require
fundamentally new approaches to develop a storage archive capable
of securely preserving data for thirty years or more.
We are proposing to develop a tape-based long-term archival data management
system that will enable high-performance while maintaining appropriate
levels of security throughout the data’s lifecycle.
