Arcutek will develop a security service called "HEAP" or "HPC Evaluation And Plan" as a complete configuration of security solutions for connection, file ingress/egress, compute, data-at-rest and other infrastructure areas. Security for HPC environments is complex and requires a holistic approach to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from security events. Some vendor-specific guides are available through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Center for Internet Security, but no government or industry plan completely encompasses the security of HPC architecture. We endeavor to research common off the shelf products and open source tools which would bring HPC components into compliance with the NIST 800-53A Revision 4 and the "Security Controls Catalog and Assessment Procedures."[1]

We have demonstrated the synergy of a wide-area SLASH2 file system [1] with remote bioinformatics workflows between Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment [2] sites using the Galaxy Project's web-based platform [3] for reproducible data analysis. Wide-area Galaxy workflows were enabled by establishing a geographically-distributed SLASH2 instance between the Greenfield [4] system at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [5] and virtual machines incorporating storage within the Corral [6] file system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center [7]. Analysis tasks submitted through a single Galaxy instance seamlessly leverage data available from either site. In this paper, we explore the advantages of SLASH2 for enabling workflows from Galaxy Main [8].