Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide
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2.3
Host System Required BIOS Features
The host system BIOS must support the following features:
For Intel® VCA Software release 1.0:
Support for large MMIO space (minimum 192 GB per card)
Support for large BAR allocations (must support 64 GB allocation per device)
For Intel® VCA Software release 1.2:
Support for large MMIO space (3 GB + 768 KB per card)
Support for large BAR allocations (must support 1 GB allocation per device)
2.4
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator EEPROM/Software Release Compatibility
Matrix
VCA SW-HW
Configuration Advisory
VCA SW 1.0
on host
VCA SW 1.2
on host
Host Server BIOS
Settings
VCA HW 1.0 PLX
EEPROM
(serial # QSVV549xxxxx /
PBA ending in -404 )
Valid
Configuration
Customer can
upgrade to
SW 1.2
Valid
Configuration
Customer can
upgrade to
card flashed
with PLX
EEPROM 1.2
Required:
MMIO: >= 192 GB per
Intel® VCA installed in
the host
BAR: >= 64 GB per
device
VCA HW 1.2 PLX
EEPROM
(serial # QSVV61xxxxxx /
PBA ending in -405)
NOT VALID
Host server
will not
recognize
VCA HW
Valid
Configuration
Required*:
MMIO: >= (3GB + 768
KB) per Intel® VCA
card installed in the
host
BAR: >= 1 GB per
device
* Note that VCA HW
1.0 PLX host BIOS
settings are
supported, as well, as
they are a superset of
these requirements
2.5
Host System Minimum Memory Requirements
The Host System must have sufficient free RAM (after accounting for operating system, running services and
applications) to load the Bootable image for each node that will be simultaneously booted. (e.g., if a 2GB
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