Case Study: RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science achieves improved uptime and security with Splunk Enterprise

RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Gains Uptime, Improves Security

RIKEN’s Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), home to the K supercomputer and dozens of large-scale research projects, faced operational and security challenges from vast volumes of machine data generated across three systems (K, network, and HPCI servers). The organization lacked visibility into disparate logs, needed faster detection of security incidents and network failures, and wanted to improve system uptime and job scheduling.

RIKEN deployed Splunk Enterprise to collect, index and analyze logs in real time, using searches, alerts and dashboards (and the REST API when needed) to monitor systems and vendor activity. The result was faster incident response and better security visibility, more efficient large-scale log management, improved uptime across the three systems, and optimized job scheduling.

RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science

Fumiyoshi Shoji

Deputy Director Operations & Computer Technologies Division RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science