Modern research institutions often hit a wall when modernizing access to high-performance computing environments.
The compute infrastructure is already in place. Enterprise identity systems are already established. The challenge is enabling those systems to work together securely without creating friction for researchers or compromising institutional security requirements.
BioTeam recently helped a major federal research institution address this challenge in an AWS ParallelCluster environment.
The objective was straightforward: enable researchers to submit HPC jobs using their existing enterprise credentials, without requiring SSH access, manual token management, additional infrastructure components, or security workarounds.
The environment came with real constraints: enterprise identity infrastructure, strict security requirements, and no appetite for bolted-on workarounds. Off-the-shelf solutions did not fit. So we built something that did.
The result was a secure authentication and job submission workflow that works within existing institutional systems while simplifying access and improving the user experience for researchers.
For research organizations navigating the intersection of cloud HPC, enterprise identity, and secure researcher access, this is a challenge BioTeam has successfully solved.
This work was led by BioTeam’s Senior Scientific Consultant, John Jacquay, who specializes in cloud infrastructure, workflow automation, and secure scientific computing environments.
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