Xilinx Alveo U50 Installation Guide

Installing the Card
The following procedure is a guide for the Xilinx
®
Alveo
™
U50 Data Center accelerator card
installaon. Consult your computer documentaon for addional informaon.
Note: For use with UL Listed Servers or ITE.
If you encounter any issues during installaon, see Chapter 7: Troubleshoong and Known
Issues.
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 airow across the card
with proper air ow direcon, otherwise the card can be damaged. This card can heat up aer use in
the server. Use cauon when handling. For more informaon, see Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator
Cards Data Sheet (DS965).
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 operang 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
Chapter 3: Card Installation Procedures
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Brand	Xilinx
Model	Alveo U50
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English