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Hardware-Rooted AI Security That Won't Slow You Down
NVIDIA's Confidential Computing (CC) architecture for Blackwell GPUs uses a hardware-fused private signing key and remote attestation via NRAS to protect model weights and data during inference without exposing secrets to the host system. Benchmarks on an HGX B300 running Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B showed that CC delivered up to 98% of non-CC throughput across concurrency levels from 4 to 256, with overhead primarily due to secure work submission latency and encrypted host-to-device bandwidth limits. Optimizations cited included FlashInfer's GPU-timer-based autotuning, SGLang's async D2H copy worker, and piecewise CUDA graph replay.
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