NCCS Introduces CITADEL Security Framework for Open Science Using Protected Data

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled CITADEL, a new framework of security protocols that will enable researchers to harness the NCCS’s supercomputers for open-science projects using protected data. Although ORNL has a long history of conducting computational analysis on “open-research” data, which is typically easy to publish and disseminate, CITADEL will implement new security controls for handling large datasets that include private information. For example, this new capability will provide unprecedented levels of high-performance computing (HPC) power for research projects in the health care field, which requires patient privacy protection under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).