Strategic Analysis of the Advanced Computing Infrastructure and Future Directions

This paper provides a critical evaluation of the Advanced Computing Infrastructure (ACI), which is a fundamental element of the Cyber Infrastructure (CI) 21st of the Century. Whereas the infrastructure focuses widely on the cyber infrastructure required by education, engineering, and science communities to handle more complex issues and problems, the ACI particularly concentrates on ensuring these societies have ready accessibility to the required advanced computing capacities. The CI of the 21st Century and its framework integrate other key complementariness; however, it integrates overlapping elements: scientific instruments, Computational Data-enhanced Engineering & Science (CDE&S), computational science, grand challenge societies, workforce development, Cyber Security (CS), campus bridging, software and data. Various elements were addressed in the CI of the 21st Century in the past decade and processes are in progress to design strategic plans focusing on the different elements.

Poison in the Well: Securing the Shared Resources of Machine Learning

Modern machine learning often relies on open-source datasets, pretrained models, and machine learning libraries from across the internet, but are those resources safe to use? Previously successful digital supply chain attacks against cyber infrastructure suggest the answer may be no. This report introduces policymakers to these emerging threats and provides recommendations for how to secure the machine learning supply chain.