Intel Corporation

John R Lindsley

Vincent J Zimmer

Mallik Bulusu

Robert Charles Swanson

Robert W Cone

Daniel Nemiroff

Malay Trivedi

Piotr Michael Kwidzinski

Mahesh S Natu

Stephen S Pawlowski

Kirk D Brannock

Madhusudhan Rangarajan

Dimitrios Ziakas

Russell J Wunderlich

Babak B Nikjou

C Brendan Traw

Miles F Schwartz

Platform controller, computer-readable storage media, and methods associated with initialization of a computing device. In embodiments, a platform controller may comprise a boot controller and one or more non-volatile memory modules, coupled with the boot controller. In embodiments, the one or more non-volatile memory modules may have first instructions and second instructions stored thereon. The first instructions may, when executed by a processor of a computing device hosting the platform controller, cause initialization of the computing device. The second instructions, when executed by the boot controller, may cause the boot controller to monitor at least a portion of the execution of the first instructions by the computing device and may generate a trace of the monitored portion of the execution of the first instructions. In embodiments, the trace may be stored in the one or more non-volatile memory modules. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Initialization trace of a computing device

Embodiments of multinode hubs for trust operations are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a multinode hub may include a plurality of memory regions, a trapping module, and a trusted platform module (TPM) component. Each memory region may be associated with and receive trust operation data from a coherent computing node. The trapping module may generate trap notifications in response to accesses to the plurality of memory regions by the associated coherent computing nodes. The trap notifications may indicate which of the plurality of memory locations has been accessed, and the TPM component may process the trust operation data in a memory region indicated by a trap notification. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

Multinode hubs for trusted computing

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Tacoma, WA, United States of America

John R Lindsley