Method and apparatus for securing CPUS booted using attached flash memory devices

摘要

The present disclosure describes techniques evaluating compute and/or thermal loads (among other things) to aid in managing a collection of one or more containerized or modular data centers. For example, forecasts (or real-time measurements) of environmental factors (as well as projected computing demands) may be used to tailor the compute loads, cooling strategies or other metric of data center operations for a network of containerized or modular data centers. Doing so allows an operator of such a data center network to manage specific operational goals in real time.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a processor; a boot flash storage area storing a boot image; and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to:
validate an integrity of the FPGA and a microloader; andcause the validated microloader to be passed to the processor; and wherein the microloader, when executed by the processor, performs an operation comprising:
retrieving the boot image from the boot flash storage area;validating the boot image; andsending, to the FPGA, at least one validation result indicating the boot image is authorized to be loaded by the system, wherein the FPGA is configured to prevent the processor from executing the boot image until the FPGA: (i) validates the integrity of the FPGA and the microloader, and (ii) receives the at least one validation result from the microloader.