USENIX ATC '23 - Confidential Computing within an AI Accelerator

USENIX ATC '23 - Confidential Computing within an AI Accelerator

Kapil Vaswani, Stavros Volos, Cédric Fournet, Antonio Nino Diaz, and Ken Gordon, Microsoft, Balaji Vembu, Meta, Sam Webster and David Chisnall, Microsoft, Saurabh Kulkarni, Lucata Systems, Graham Cunningham, XTX Markets, Richard Osborne, Graphcore, Daniel Wilkinson, Imagination Technologies

We present IPU Trusted Extensions (ITX), a set of hardware extensions that enables trusted execution environments in Graphcore’s AI accelerators. ITX enables the execution of AI workloads with strong confidentiality and integrity guarantees …

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