NCSI: High-Performance Cryptography Service using Heterogeneous (Apprentice Position)

Status	Completed
Mentor Name	Lei Xu
Mentor's XSEDE Affiliation	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mentor Has Been in XSEDE Community	Less than 1 year
Project Title	High-Performance Cryptography Service using Heterogeneous (Apprentice Position)
Summary	The project aims at developing new optimization techniques and implementations of cryptography tools in a CPU+GPU environment. We will focus on those expensive cryptography primitives including zero-knowledge proof and secure multi-party computation.
Job Description	The student will: (i) Learn the current status of the cryptography primitives; (ii) Learn algorithm optimization skills in a heterogeneous computation environment; (iii) Contribute to the engineering efforts to implement selected cryptography algorithms.
Computational Resources	The project will utilize GPU resources provided through XSEDE, such as SDSC Dell Cluster with NVIDIA V100 GPUs NVLINK and HDR IB (Expanse GPU).
Contribution to Community	The developed software will be open-sourced to the community and can serve as the foundation to develop other high-performance applications.
Position Type	Apprentice
Training Plan	Week 1 – Week 2: Introduction to GPU+CPU programming Week 2 – Week 4: Introduction to the cryptography algorithms Week 5 – Week 10: Algorithms optimization and implementation
Student Prerequisites/Conditions/Qualifications	1. Experienced in C/C++ 2. Basic background knowledge of cryptography
Duration	Summer
Start Date	06/21/2021
End Date	08/27/2021