arXiv AI By Wei Wang, Abdul Hyee Waqas, Burns Smith

Benchmarking Confidential GPU Inference on NVIDIA H100 under Intel TDX

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arXiv:2607. 19353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confidential computing is becoming a practical deployment requirement for AI inference workloads that process sensitive inputs or protect proprietary model assets.

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