OCP Global Summit (San Jose, California)

Confidential computing is a hot topic that is gaining momentum thanks to the need of privacy preserving AI use cases  running on 3rd party infrastructure. Hardware-based enclaves such as AMD SEV, Intel TDX, and Arm CCA are now considered the most pragmatic approach. On the GPU side, we are also seeing support added to the NVIDIA H100. So far, the focus has been on implementations in the Central CPUs and GPUs. With the adoption of DPUs to offload task such as TLS proxy services, over-the-network storage operations and asymmetric cryptography there is a strong case to extend Confidential Compute to these devices. In this talk we will go through what makes the intersection of confidential computing and DPUs so interesting, and will present our ongoing work exploring new use cases such as vicarious attestation and mesh services offload.   With these opportunities presented, we hope to influence manufactures of DPU cards to produce solutions that enable Confidential Compute.

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