How Manchester HEP's computing team addressed critical security vulnerabilities in grid compute systems
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Author: Dave Love
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Dave Love from the High Energy Physics computing group at Manchester discusses the team's response to critical security vulnerabilities in their multi-access grid compute systems. The article covers how they manage a Tier 2 node of the HEP worldwide computing grid, the security challenges that arise from allowing users worldwide to submit compute jobs, and the technical measures taken to address critical vulnerabilities in Linux-based systems.
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bskyHow Manchester HEP's computing team addressed critical security vulnerabilities in grid compute systemsresearch-it.manchester.ac.ukKey quotes
· 3 pulledManchester HEP run a 'Tier 2 node' — the most productive in the UK! — of the HEP world-wide computing 'grid'.
Users submit compute jobs which might end up at Manchester from sites around the world.
The site can't easily...
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