Open issues

Last modified by juhaheli@helsinki_fi on 2024/02/08 06:49

Computing infrastructure for sensitive data

Current situation

Currently we cannot compute sensitive data in any HPC environment. Best solution currently is using ePouta. ePouta has anyways several challenges:

  • ePouta is in Kajaani. Moving data there and back is not very ideal if thinking about performance
  • you need to install SW yourself


Solution

Infra should be availabe for sensitive data. Options:

  • totally dedicated and isolated HW
  • part of existing HW would be dedicated for sensitive data. discs would be isolated some way.
  • we need to be very careful to fullfill the law requirements


Software as modules

Current situation

Often happens that some software to be used by researchers is not available as module. This may be an obstacle for researcher to use cluster but stay on some other environemnt which may suit not so well for computing. Thus we might add these software as a module

NOTE: Modules are easy to create, and vast majority of software do not require privileged user to install them. Examples of module builds are on the user guide (Module system). Modules are used to control different versions of the software by setting environment variables and dependencies automatically when module is loaded. 

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