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In recent years, High Performance Computing (HPC) and data center systems have populated the use of millions smart devices that enable novel services and applications. As these technologies become more complex, the need for strong cybersecurity measures has never been more critical. The potential for cyberattacks on HPC and data center systems has called for new solutions to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data. Remote attestation is a datacenter security requirement as it provides assurance and allows the client to verify the level of trust and details of the system state before launching their workloads. Integrity represents the characteristics of the data on the platform are in preserved state without being exposed to intentional or unintentional modifications. Firmware integrity is crucial to the security of HPC and data center systems. Most of the existing techniques for firmware attestation require a copy of HPC compute devices firmware. However, it can be altered during transient therefore enabling Security Protocol Data model (SPDM) to protect data during transient is necessary. In this paper, we propose a scalable attestation framework that verify the trustworthiness of platform components in HPC and data center systems using Merkle tree data structure and enabling SPDM across the platform to protect data during compute against cyber-attacks. Using this method, we are providing flexibility to the relying party to verify attestation measurements in high scale system against cyber-attacks and deliver platform and module level attestation services.