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Sophon SC1 
User Guide

   

V1.2 

 

Summary of Contents for Sophon SC1

Page 1: ...Copyright 2017 BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED All rights reserved Sophon SC1 User Guide V1 2 ...

Page 2: ...Copyright 2017 BITMAIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED All rights reserved Version Update Content Release Date V1 0 2017 10 25 V1 0 1 Add Software package download link 2017 11 28 ...

Page 3: ...S LIMITED All rights reserved CONTENT 1 Overview 4 1 1 Introduction 4 1 2 Minimum System Requirements 4 2 Installation 5 2 1 Hardware Installing 5 2 2 Software Installing 6 2 2 1 Software Package 6 2 2 2 How to install 6 2 2 3 Example 7 ...

Page 4: ...SDK from Bitmain you can further simplify the buffer management of DL workload to achieve better load balancing Each Sophon SC1 card has a PCIE3 0x8 interface can access large capacity system DRAM memory to achieve bidirectional data exchange and streaming between the card and the system Sophon SC1 card max power consumption is 85W Sophon SC1 card max power consumption is 150W the actual power con...

Page 5: ...ing procedure to install the SC1 accelerator card into your computer system 2 1 1 Turn off your computer server and monitor and disconnect the power cord Depending on your computer system you may need to disconnect the cables on the back of your system Mark those cables so you can make sure reconnecting them properly 2 1 2 Open your computer by removing the cover side panel Refer to your computer ...

Page 6: ... bmdnn which will be linked during runtime Other libs Other supporting libs such as caffe maybe different in different releases Document User guide readme and other documents Tools Install scripts and sample test applications 2 2 2 How to Install You could get the package from below address http ivs bitmain io file name bm1680_debs_V1 21 tar gz And it can be installed following these steps Unpacke...

Page 7: ...package has been installed successfully 2 2 3 Example There are several test applications in the package As demo these tests can be easily used you can type a command like this from any path test_md_scalar This application will run It will load firmware to SC1 when necessary And the calculation result will be shown at last Available sample applications may be within following list Test Name note 1...

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