Intel Corporation

Luis S Kida

Reshma Lal

Pradeep M Pappachan

Soham Jayesh Desai

Selvakumar Panneer

Robert O Sharp

Sujoy Sen

Alpa Narendra Trivedi

Siddhartha Chhabra

Krystof C Zmudzinski

Abhishek Basak

Anna Trikalinou

Vedvyas Shanbhogue

Santosh Ghosh

Utkarsh Y Kakaiya

David M Lee

Nilesh K Jain

Darshan Iyer

Ebrahim Al Safadi

Nanda Kumar Unnikrishnan

Daniel C Middleton

Evan R Green

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act as a proxy for an application stack on a client platform that is separate from the remote server platform, wherein the remote GPU middleware layer comprises is to expose an abstraction of the remote GPU to userspace components of a remote GPU stack, the userspace components running on the client machine; communicate with a kernel mode driver of the one or more processors to cause the host memory to be allocated for data structures used to communicate commands between the client and the remote GPU; and invoke the kernel mode driver to submit a workload generated by the application stack, the workload submitted for processing by the remote GPU using the data structures allocated in the host memory.

Disaggregated computing for distributed confidential computing environment

Technologies for secure I/O data transfer with an accelerator device include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. The processor establishes a trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may generate an authentication tag based on a memory-mapped I/O transaction, write the authentication tag to a register of the accelerator, and dispatch the transaction to the accelerator. The accelerator performs a cryptographic operation associated with the transaction, generates an authentication tag based on the transaction, and compares the generated authentication tag to the authentication tag received from the trusted execution environment. The accelerator device may initialize an authentication tag in response to a command from the trusted execution environment, transfer data between host memory and accelerator memory, perform a cryptographic operation in response to transferring the data, and update the authentication tag in response to transferrin the data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure I/O with accelerator devices

Embodiments are directed to trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a trusted execution environment (TEE); a GPU including a trusted agent; and a memory, the memory including GPU local memory, the trusted agent to ensure proper allocation/deallocation of the local memory and verify translations between graphics physical addresses (PAs) and PAs for the apparatus, wherein the local memory is partitioned into protection regions including a protected region and an unprotected region, and wherein the protected region to store a memory permission table maintained by the trusted agent, the memory permission table to include any virtual function assigned to a trusted domain, a per process graphics translation table to translate between graphics virtual address (VA) to graphics guest PA (GPA), and a local memory translation table to translate between graphics GPAs and PAs for the local memory.

Trusted local memory management in a virtualized GPU

An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to: generate, via the application in the TEE, encrypted data, wherein the encrypted data comprises a payload; copy, via the application in the TEE, the encrypted data to a local buffer; interface, using the application in the TEE, with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform; and communicate, after completing the copy of the network of the encrypted data, at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data.

Protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) to: provide a virtual GPU monitor (VGM) to interface over a network with a middleware layer of a client platform, the VGM to interface with the middleware layer using a message passing interface; configure and expose, by the VGM, virtual functions (VFs) of the GPU to the middleware layer of the client platform; intercept, by the VGM, request messages directed to the GPU from the middleware layer, the request messages corresponding to VFs of the GPU to be utilized by the client platform; and generate, by the VGM, a response to the request messages for the middleware client.

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.

Technologies for secure device configuration and management include a computing device having an I/O device. A trusted agent of the computing device is trusted by a virtual machine monitor of the computing device. The trusted agent securely commands the I/O device to enter a trusted I/O mode, securely commands the I/O device to set a global lock on configuration registers, receives configuration data from the I/O device, and provides the configuration data to a trusted execution environment. In the trusted I/O mode, the I/O device rejects a configuration command if a configuration register associated with the configuration command is locked and the configuration command is not received from the trusted agent. The trusted agent may provide attestation information to the trusted execution environment. The trusted execution environment may verify the configuration data and the attestation information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure device configuration and management

Technologies for secure I/O data transfer include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. Each of the processor and the accelerator includes a memory encryption engine. The computing device configures both memory encryption engines with a shared encryption key and transfers encrypted data from a source component to a destination component via an I/O link. The source may be processor and the destination may be the accelerator or vice versa. The computing device may perform a cryptographic operation with one of the memory encryption engines and bypass the other memory encryption engine. The computing device may read encrypted data from a memory of the source, bypass the source memory encryption engine, and transfer the encrypted data to the destination. The destination may receive encrypted data, bypass the destination memory encryption engine, and store the encrypted data in a memory of the destination. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for secure I/O with memory encryption engines

An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to utilize the application in the TEE to: generate encrypted data of the application; copy the encrypted data to a local shared buffer; interface with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local shared buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform, wherein the source NIC operates outside of a trust boundary of the TEE; and communicate at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data, wherein the one least one message comprises an authentication tag.

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a programmable integrated circuit (IC) comprising secure device manager (SDM) hardware circuitry to: receive a tenant bitstream of a tenant and a tenant use policy for utilization of the programmable IC via the tenant bitstream, wherein the tenant use policy is cryptographically bound to the tenant bitstream by a cloud service provider (CSP) authorizing entity and signed with a signature of the CSP authorizing entity; in response to successfully verifying the signature, extract the tenant use policy to provide to a policy manager of the programmable IC for verification; in response to the policy manager verifying the tenant bitstream based on the tenant use policy, configure a partial reconfiguration (PR) region of the programmable IC using the tenant bitstream; and associate a slot ID of the PR region with the tenant use policy.

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: provide a remote GPU middleware layer to act as a proxy for an application stack on a client platform separate from the apparatus; communicate, by the remote GPU middleware layer, with a kernel mode driver of the one or more processors to cause the host memory to be allocated for command buffers and data structures received from the client platform for consumption by a command streamer of a remote GPU of the apparatus; and invoke, by the remote GPU middleware layer, the kernel mode driver to submit a workload generated by the application stack, the workload submitted for processing by the remote GPU using the command buffers and the data structures allocated in the host memory as directed by the command streamer.

An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a source remote direct memory access (RDMA) network interface controller (RNIC); a queue to store a data entry corresponding to an RDMA request between the source RNIC and a sink RNIC; a data buffer to store data for an RDMA transfer corresponding to the RDMA request, the RDMA transfer between the source RNIC and the sink RNIC; and a trusted execution environment (TEE) comprising an authentication tag controller to: initialize a first authentication tag calculated using a first key known between a source consumer generating the RDMA request and the source RNIC; associate the first authentication tag with the data entry as integrity verification; initialize a second authentication tag calculated using a second key; and associate the second authentication tag with the data buffer as integrity verification for the data buffer.

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Beaverton, OR, United States of America

Luis S Kida