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High Performance Computing

The crossing of cloud and HPC environments often leads us to questions of how security in an HPC cloud environment can be implemented, enforced and ensured without the need to compromise performance. This working group strives to provide recommendations that can answer these questions.
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Survey Report - Security Practices in HPC & HPC Cloud
Survey Report - Security Practices in HPC & HPC Cloud

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High Performance Computing
Working Group Overview

The crossing of cloud and HPC environments often leads us to questions of how security in an HPC cloud environment can be implemented, enforced and ensured without the need to compromise performance. This working group strives to provide recommendations that can answer these questions.


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Working Group Leadership

Ong Guan Sin
Ong Guan Sin

Ong Guan Sin

Andrew Howard
Andrew Howard

Andrew Howard

​Cloud Team Manager, National Computational Infrastructure Canberra Australia

Andrew has many decades of hands-on technical, diplomatic and logistics experience covering a wide range of standard and bespoke technologies, languages and applications within Industry, Government, Academia and Research nationally and internationally.


He is a member of the APAN Program Committee, Co-Chair of the APAN E-Culture and Asia Pacific Research Platform working groups and the Lead judge on the SCA19 Data Movement C...

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Publications in ReviewOpen Until
AICM Auditing GuidelinesSep 03, 2025
A Practitioner’s Guide to Post-Quantum CryptographySep 17, 2025
Cloud Threat Modeling 2025Sep 19, 2025
Key Management in Cloud Services 2025 Update Sep 26, 2025
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Who can join?

Anyone can join a working group, whether you have years of experience or want to just participate as a fly on the wall.

What is the time commitment?

The time commitment for this group varies depending on the project. You can spend a 15 minutes helping review a publication that's nearly finished or help author a publication from start to finish.

Virtual Meetings

Attend our next meeting. You can just listen in to decide if this group is a good for you or you can choose to actively participate. During these calls we discuss current projects, and well as share ideas for new projects. This is a good way to meet the other members of the group. You can view all research meetings here.

Open Peer Reviews

Peer reviews allow security professionals from around the world to provide feedback on CSA research before it is published.

Learn how to participate in a peer review here.

AICM Auditing Guidelines

Open Until: 09/03/2025

Auditing steps for each of the 243 controls of the AI Controls Matrix for internal or external auditors that are going to e...

A Practitioner’s Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Open Until: 09/17/2025

As quantum computing advances, the threat it poses to classical cryptographic algorithms becomes increasingly urgent. This ...

Cloud Threat Modeling 2025

Open Until: 09/19/2025

The purpose of this document is to enable and encourage effective threat modeling for cloud applications, services, and sec...

Key Management in Cloud Services 2025 Update

Open Until: 09/26/2025

This document is an updated edition of the original “Key Management in Cloud Services” paper, first published in 2020. ...