DEI

Invited Speaker: Professor Ravishankar K. Iyer

Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract: Motivated by measurements and an in-depth analysis of forensic data of actual security incidents at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), this talk will present the design and development of a framework to provide an application-specific level of reliability and security, while delivering optimal performance and using minimal redundancy.  

The data from NCSA shows how attacks progress as seen by the monitoring tools and traces recorded in the data logs - reconstructing the attack steps from an alert to a compromise – providing the basis on which to develop an application aware framework.  The framework and its implementation (called TRUSTED ILLIAC) is shown to provide customized levels of trust (specified by the application) enforced in hardware, using an integrated approach involving reprogrammable hardware and enhanced compiler methods to extract security and reliability properties.  We demonstrate an integrated set of techniques that span entire system hierarchy:  processor hardware, operating system, and application.    The talk will describe the current status, the prototype hardware and software and on-going plans.

Trusted ILLIAC is based on research supported by, among others, The National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Boeing Corporation, IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, AMD, Intel, Motorola, XILINX, and the State