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Hi,
I will be beginning to develop an AFU for the Intel OFS for the N6000-PL in the realms of Encryption/Decryption and Compression/Decompression. I went over the Host Server Requirements mentioned in the Intel OFS guide, is there any other considerations other than this for the same as I will be ordering a Host server soon.
I couldn't find much information on the BMC of the server motherboard and the BIOS version of the same. Could you please guide me as to what are the strict requirements needed for the same.
The requirements that I have figured out till now
1) Server should contain 128 Gb of RAM.
2) Server must be able to fit and cool N6000-PL
3) Power Supply with 12 V Auxiliary 2X4 Power
4) Red Hat 8.6 Kernel 6.1-lts
5) Intel Vt for Directed I/O (VT-d) must be enabled
6) PCIe slot must have IOMMU
7) PCIe slot must be gen 4 ( N6000-PL is a gen 4 platform )
If u find anything missing could you please advice me on the same.
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Beginner_in_FPGA
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Hi,
Generally you already covered the system requirements section based on the OFS guide. As we cant determine which Bios FW to use except for the server that Intel tested on (supermicro) , you just need to ensure these settings are available on the server that you have chosen.
BMC server not really important in my opinion, just if you doing a lot of remote server work, make sure you can remote configure/upgrade and monitor the server status/screen via the BMC/CPLD
Settings in bios:
- fan speed adjustment to cool the FPGA card
- PCIe slot must be bifurcated x8 / x8
- PCIe slot speed must be set to Gen 5 (optional- even though guide says gen5 , since card is gen4 )
- PCIe slot must have iommu enabled
- Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d) must be enabled (CPU, motherboard/chipset)
On top of it , if you're planning to run multiple fpga cards in the server , do ensure the power supply wattage level is sufficient.
Do ensure disk space sufficient as well for Quartus and other design tools that you might use.
Basically that's it
Thanks
Regards
Kian
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Hi,
Generally you already covered the system requirements section based on the OFS guide. As we cant determine which Bios FW to use except for the server that Intel tested on (supermicro) , you just need to ensure these settings are available on the server that you have chosen.
BMC server not really important in my opinion, just if you doing a lot of remote server work, make sure you can remote configure/upgrade and monitor the server status/screen via the BMC/CPLD
Settings in bios:
- fan speed adjustment to cool the FPGA card
- PCIe slot must be bifurcated x8 / x8
- PCIe slot speed must be set to Gen 5 (optional- even though guide says gen5 , since card is gen4 )
- PCIe slot must have iommu enabled
- Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d) must be enabled (CPU, motherboard/chipset)
On top of it , if you're planning to run multiple fpga cards in the server , do ensure the power supply wattage level is sufficient.
Do ensure disk space sufficient as well for Quartus and other design tools that you might use.
Basically that's it
Thanks
Regards
Kian
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Hi,
Is there anything else I could help you with on this case?
Thanks
Regards
Kian
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Hi @khtan,
No, As far as this case is concerned this issue is closed.
Thank you
Best Regards,
Beginner_in_FPGA
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Hi,
I’m glad that your question has been addressed. If you have a new question, please login to ‘https://supporttickets.intel.com’, view details of the desire request, and post a feed/response within the next 15 days to allow me to continue to support you. After 15 days, this thread will be transitioned to community support. The community users will be able to help you on your follow-up questions.
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Kian
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