Obfuscation for high-performance computing systems

An obfuscation system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• processing circuitry in communication with the memory, the processing circuitry being configured to:
• initialize communications with a plurality of nodes in a distributed computing platform, wherein the plurality of nodes includes one or more compute nodes that provide one or more resources in the distributed computing platform, wherein the plurality of nodes further includes a controller node that performs resource management of the one or more resources in the distributed computing platform, and wherein the obfuscation system serves as an intermediary between the controller node and the one or more compute nodes;
• output an interactive user interface (UT) providing a selection between at least a first privilege level and a second privilege level;
• based on the selection being associated with the first privilege level, perform a first obfuscation mechanism for the distributed computing platform to obfuscate digital traffic between a user computing system and the plurality of nodes;
• and
• based on the selection being associated with the second privilege level, perform a second obfuscation mechanism for the distributed computing platform to obfuscate digital traffic between the user computing system and the plurality of nodes, and wherein performing the second obfuscation mechanism comprises performing obfuscating operations on unobfuscated information that is received from the user computing system and then sent as obfuscated information to the controller or the one or more compute nodes, and performing reciprocal operations on obfuscated response information that is received from the controller or the one or more compute nodes and then sent as obfuscated response information to the user computing system, wherein the first privilege level is associated with privileged users of the user computing system and the second privilege level is associated with unprivileged users of the user computing system.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry of an obfuscation system to:

• initialize communications with a plurality of nodes in a distributed computing platform, wherein the plurality of nodes includes one or more compute nodes that provide one or more resources in the distributed computing platform, wherein the plurality of nodes further includes a controller node that performs resource management of the one or more resources in the distributed computing platform, and wherein the obfuscation computing system serves as an intermediary between the controller node and the one or more compute nodes;
• output an interactive user interface (UT) providing a selection between at least a first privilege level and a second privilege level;
• and
• perform an obfuscation mechanism based on a privilege level, including:
• based on the selection being associated with the first privilege level, perform a first obfuscation mechanism for the distributed computing platform to obfuscate digital traffic between a user computing system and the plurality of nodes, and
• based on the selection being associated with the second privilege level, perform a second obfuscation mechanism for the distributed computing platform to obfuscate digital traffic between the user computing system and the plurality of nodes, and wherein performing the second obfuscation mechanism comprises performing obfuscating operations on unobfuscated information that is received from the user computing system and then sent as obfuscated information to the controller or the one or more compute nodes, and performing reciprocal operations on obfuscated response information that is received from the controller or the one or more compute nodes and then sent as obfuscated response information to the user computing system, wherein the first privilege level is associated with privileged users of the user computing system and the second privilege level is associated with unprivileged users of the user computing system.