Installing the Card
The following procedure is a guide for the Xilinx
®
Alveo
™
U50 Data Center accelerator card
installation. Consult your computer documentation for additional information.
Note: For use with UL Listed Servers or ITE.
If you encounter any issues during installation, see
and
1. Shut down the host computer and unplug the power cord.
2. Open your computer by removing the casing.
3. If necessary, remove the adjacent PCIe
®
slot cover corresponding to the PCIe slot in which
you are installing the Alveo card.
4. Plug the Alveo card into the PCIe x16 slot on the motherboard.
5. Re-install the computer casing.
6. Connect the power cord and turn on the computer.
WARNING! Do not power-on a passively cooled card without adequate forced airflow across the card
with proper air flow direction, otherwise the card can be damaged. This card can heat up after use in
the server. Use caution when handling. For more information, see Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator
Cards Data Sheet (
).
7. To verify that the device has been installed correctly, enter the following Linux command in
the terminal:
$ sudo lspci -vd 10ee:
If the card is successfully installed and found by the operating system, a message similar to
the one below will be displayed.
This is a sample output for an installed Alveo U50 card:
65:00.0 Processing accelerators: Xilinx Corporation Device 5020
Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 000e
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 135
Memory at 38bffc000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at 38bffe000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [1c0] #19
Capabilities: [1f0] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [e00] Access Control Services
Kernel driver in use: xclmgmt
Kernel modules: xclmgmt
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