OCP Flashless Boot Update

Varun Sampath, Principal Engineer, NVIDIA
Bharat Pillili, Presenter, Microsoft
Ahmad Atamli, Security Architect, NVIDIA

This presentation will detail the architecture and data flows of OCP Flashless Boot. The high level concept of Flashless Boot was introduced at OCP Regional Summit 2023 and included in the Composable Security Architecture as part of OCP Global Summit 2023. In OCP Regional Summit 2024, we will outline the system boot and protocols used to perform flashless boot of CPUs and PCIe devices, along with a roadmap for adoption.