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Clara Holoscan Developer Kit User Guide 

 

Purpose: 

Provides the instructions to flash, setup, and start using the Clara Holoscan 

Developer Kit. 

 

Disclaimer: The Clara Holoscan Developer Kit is not an approved medical device and is not 

intended for clinical use. 

 

Version: 

1.0 

 

Contents 

Checklist for Setting up the Developer Kit ............................................................. 2 
Hardware Setup ............................................................................................. 2 

Requirements............................................................................................. 2 
Precautions ............................................................................................... 2 

System Overview ........................................................................................... 3 

Main Components ........................................................................................ 3 
Tech Specs ................................................................................................ 3 
I/O and external interfaces ............................................................................ 5 

Powering up the System ................................................................................... 7 
Flashing and Updating the Clara Holoscan Developer Kit using SDK Manager ..................... 7 
Switching between iGPU and dGPU ...................................................................... 8 

Reinstalling Optional SDK Packages .................................................................. 10 

Setting up SSD Storage .................................................................................... 10 

Create the Partition .................................................................................... 11 
Mount the Partition ..................................................................................... 12 

Setting up Docker and Docker Storage on SSD ........................................................ 13 
Install the Clara Holoscan SDK ........................................................................... 14 
Additional Resources ...................................................................................... 15 
 
 
 

 

 

Summary of Contents for Clara Holoscan

Page 1: ...p the Developer Kit 2 Hardware Setup 2 Requirements 2 Precautions 2 System Overview 3 Main Components 3 Tech Specs 3 I O and external interfaces 5 Powering up the System 7 Flashing and Updating the Cl...

Page 2: ...A compatible cable should meet the following requirements Provides a certified local 3 prong AC power plug Provides a C13 connector Supports ratings of 100 120VAC 6A 200 240VAC 3A or higher with a mi...

Page 3: ...nents The Clara Holoscan Developer Kit contains the following major components AGX Orin 32 GB module RTX A6000 discrete GPU ConnectX 6 DX 500GB removeable SSD Tech Specs CPU 8 core Arm Cortex A78AE v8...

Page 4: ...X A6000 48 GB GDDR6 768 GB s 10 752 CUDA cores 3rd gen 336 Tensor Cores Storage 500GB SSD I O Micro USB Type B 2x USB3 0 USB C HDMI In 5x DisplayPort 1 100 GbE Expansion N A Power Supply 850W 100 240V...

Page 5: ...Clara Holoscan Developer Kit User Guide I O and external interfaces 1 Power cable connection 2 Power switch 3 DisplayPort DP output port from Jetson Orin module 4 Micro USB Type B...

Page 6: ...elow Unscrew the two Phillips screws that secure the cover at the back of the machine Next push and slide the cover towards the back of the machine without lifting step 1 It should slide about 0 5 inc...

Page 7: ...ction error during the flashing process 3 Using a VM as your host machine isn t officially supported but it is possible with certain VMs such as VMWare Workstation 16 If using a VM ensure the ports th...

Page 8: ...tup mode may cause flashing to stall Connect the Clara Holoscan Developer Kit to the Internet using one of the following methods An Ethernet cable connected to a router or Wi Fi extender A USB Wi Fi r...

Page 9: ...nts may also be provided with the install command nvgpuswitch py install h usage nvgpuswitch py install h f d i v l LOG r L4T_REPO iGPU dGPU positional arguments iGPU dGPU install iGPU or dGPU driver...

Page 10: ...until it is changed again with nvgpuswitch py Reinstalling Optional SDK Packages This section only applies if you have selected Additional SDKs in Step 01 of the SDK Manager installation process When...

Page 11: ...he m 2 drive is identified by the Clara Holoscan Developer Kit as dev nvme0n1 This is the case if no additional drives have been attached but if other drives such as USB drives have been attached then...

Page 12: ...94912 819200 884736 1605632 2654208 4096000 7962624 11239424 20480000 23887872 71663616 78675968 102400000 Allocating group tables done Writing inode tables done Creating journal 262144 blocks done Wr...

Page 13: ...r io 2 Create a Docker data directory on the new m 2 SSD partition This is where Docker will store all of its data including build cache and container images These instructions use the path media m2 d...

Page 14: ...pt where it says SDK Manager is about to flash your Clara AGX Developer Kit module in Step 3 it has been observed that if you choose Automatic Setup even if your Developer Kit had been flashed before...

Page 15: ...the f option when running nvgpuswitch py to force the reinstall of the dGPU stack sudo nvgpuswitch py install dGPU f Additional Resources For other documentation and release notes see the Clara Holos...

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