Secure HPC workloads for SMEs
The Slovenian Jožef Stefan Institute will organize an online workshop on HPC security on 8 October 2026.
HPC environments are shared, multi-tenant systems where hundreds of users run jobs side by side on the same physical infrastructure. This creates a unique security landscape: cluster administrators must isolate users from each other and from the underlying system, while users are responsible for protecting their data, credentials, and workloads as they move through the pipeline. This workshop walks through HPC security end to end: what the infrastructure team does to keep the cluster secure, what users can (and should) do to protect their own work, and how to secure the containers you bring onto the system.
The workshop targets a wider audience, including industry, academia, and the public sector.
Participants will understand:
- The shared responsibility model between HPC infrastructure teams and end users when it comes to security.
- The mechanisms HPC centers use to isolate users, jobs, and data from one another at the OS, network, and scheduler level.
- The practical steps users should take to protect their own data and workloads while working on a shared system.
- How to secure the full lifecycle of a container, from build to signing, to scanning, to runtime, before and while using it on HPC.