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Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2
(Intel® VCA 2)
Product Specification and Hardware Guide
A reference document for server OEMs providing an overview of product features,
integration requirements, and validation guidelines.
Rev 1.3
November 2017
Intel® Server Products and Solutions

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  • Page 1 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2 (Intel® VCA 2) Product Specification and Hardware Guide A reference document for server OEMs providing an overview of product features, integration requirements, and validation guidelines. Rev 1.3 November 2017 Intel® Server Products and Solutions...
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  • Page 3 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Document Revision History Date Revision Changes July 2017 Initial release. October 2017 Edited for clarity. Removed sections on validation and operating systems. November 2017 Updated supported memory to include non-ECC memory. November 2017...
  • Page 4 Copies of documents which have an order number and are referenced in this document may be obtained by calling 1-800-548-4725 or by visiting www.intel.com/design/literature.htm. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Intel Xeon Phi are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Table of Contents 1. Introduction .................................. 7 Document Outline................................7 2. Product Overview ................................ 8 Order Information ................................8 Feature Set ................................... 8 Host System Required BIOS Features ........................9 Host System Minimum Memory Requirements ....................9 Architecture Block Diagram ............................
  • Page 6 Figure 4. Standard airflow pattern ..............................13 Figure 5. Non-standard airflow pattern ............................13 Figure 6. Intel® VCA 2 card power connectors ..........................14 Figure 7. 2x3 pin 12 V AUX power connector pin diagram ..................... 14 Figure 8. 2x4 pin 12 V AUX power connector pin diagram ..................... 15 Figure 9.

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Introduction This document provides a high-level overview of the product features, functions, and support requirements of the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2 (Intel® VCA 2) (VCA1585LMV). Document Outline This document is divided into the following chapters: ...

  • Page 8: Product Overview

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Product Overview The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2 (Intel® VCA 2) equips Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and Intel® Xeon® processor E5-based platforms with Iris® Pro Graphics and Intel® Quick Sync Video media transcode capabilities.

  • Page 9: Host System Required Bios Features

    MMIO mapping above 4 GB is enabled  Minimum MMIO size is 4 GB/CPU (node) For example, on Intel® Server Board S2600WT based systems, this can be enabled in BIOS setup by configuring the following two options on the PCI Configuration screen. ...

  • Page 10: Architecture Block Diagram

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Architecture Block Diagram Figure 1. Product architectural block diagram...

  • Page 11: Board Specifications And Support Requirements

    Board Specifications and Support Requirements Mechanical Specification Intel® VCA 2 is a “near” full-length, full-height, double-width PCIe* 3.0 x16 add-in card. It includes a bracket that extends the card to full length for systems that fully support the PCIe specification.

  • Page 12: Card Assembly

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Card Assembly The Intel VCA 2 assembly consists of several detachable components to allow for card configuration and serviceability. Figure 3 displays the full card assembly. PCIe* extender Cosmetic cover bracket Thermal module and duct...

  • Page 13: Thermal And Airflow Specification

    19.0 CFM 0.196 “H2O Note: Intel VCA 2 CPU core temperatures must remain at or below 96 °C (204.8 °F). CPUs begin to throttle once they reach 100 °C (216 °F), impacting card performance. Should CPU temperatures continue to rise, the card may shut down due to a CPU Thermal Trip event.

  • Page 14: Power Specification

    Power Specification Intel VCA 2 has a maximum TDP of 235 W. Per the PCIe specification, the PCIe x16 connector can support up to 75 W. The remaining power to the card must be supplied via the 2x3 (75 W) and 2x4 (150 W) 12 V AUX power connectors on the card as shown in Figure 6.

  • Page 15: Figure 8. 2X4 Pin 12 V Aux Power Connector Pin Diagram

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide 3.4.1.2 2x4 Pin 12 V AUX Power Connector  Vendor – Lotes  Vendor Part # - APOW0002-P001C01 Figure 8. 2x4 pin 12 V AUX power connector pin diagram Table 7. 2x4 pin 12 V AUX power connector pinout...

  • Page 16: Host Server Validation Guidelines

    PCIe* Device Discovery and Enumeration When recognized, each Intel VCA 2 lists the set of PCIe* devices shown in Figure 9. B/D/F may change based on the system setup, but the number of devices (13) and names should match. To display the device list, use the following command: lspci | grep “(rev ca)”...

  • Page 17: Figure 10. Node Pcie* Link Health

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide For the node, use the following command: lspci –s 84:00.0 –vv Figure 10. Node PCIe* link health...

  • Page 18: Node Availability

    Node Availability To quickly verify that each node is up, run a status command from the Intel VCA utility. Return data is expected to be a list of CPUs per card and each individual state. It is expected that there are three CPUs listed per card and all are in the same status after a successful boot.

  • Page 19: Ethernet Over Pcie* Network Performance

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Figure 13. CPU status after booting operating system 4.1.3 Ethernet Over PCIe* Network Performance This test is a bidirectional bandwidth measurement. Both node and server are listening to each other. There are five runs for each load.

  • Page 20: Transcoding Benchmark For Simultaneous Avc-Avc Transcodes

    Transcoding Benchmark for Simultaneous AVC-AVC Transcodes This test attempts to extract the maximum number of simultaneous AVC transcodes while maintaining a minimum of 30 FPS using Intel® Media Server Studio and a web-available video sample.  Target: Most number of simultaneous AVC transcodes achieved while keeping 30 FPS (real-time) ...

  • Page 21: Validating Hardware Compatibility

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Validating Hardware Compatibility  Mechanical, thermal, and power supply – Refer to chapters in this guide on mechanical, airflow, and power supply specifications.  Shock and vibration – There are no special requirements for testing shock and vibration. Use the standard testing procedure for PCIe* devices.

  • Page 22: Memory Support

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Memory Support Intel® VCA 2 includes three processors identified as CPU 1-3. Each of the three processors includes two memory channels identified as A and B. Each memory channel supports one SODIMM socket. Each processor can support up to 64 GB of memory.

  • Page 23: Memory Compatibility List

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Memory Compatibility List The following lists of memory have been validated for use on Intel VCA 2. This list will be updated as additional DIMMs are tested. Table 11. ECC memory compatibility list...

  • Page 24: Operating System Support

    Visual Compute Accelerator Family Software Guide: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/server-products/server-accessories/000016708.html. Intel VCA 2 boots the operating system from the host using a technology known as leverage boot. A vcactl utility is used to perform all boot operations. The utility loads the operating system into a RAMDisk that the CPUs boot from.

  • Page 25: Appendix A. Full Pcie* Dump

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Appendix A. Full PCIe* Dump For more information on PCIe* link health for Intel VCA 2, refer to Section 4.1.1. 82:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8749 (rev ca) (prog-if 00...
  • Page 26 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete+, EqualizationPhase1+ EqualizationPhase2+, EqualizationPhase3+, LinkEqualizationRequest- Capabilities: [a4] Subsystem: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8749 Capabilities: [100 v1] Device Serial Number ca-87-00-10-b5-df-0e-00 Capabilities: [fb4 v1] Advanced Error Reporting UESta:...
  • Page 27 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee001f8 Data: 0000 Masking: 000000fe Pending: 00000000 Capabilities: [68] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 2048 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0.000W...
  • Page 28 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 147 NUMA node: 1 Region 0: Memory at c8440000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot- ,D3cold-)
  • Page 29 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide 83:08.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8749 (rev ca) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-...
  • Page 30 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Capabilities: [100 v1] Device Serial Number ca-87-00-10-b5-df-0e-00 Capabilities: [fb4 v1] Advanced Error Reporting UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt+ UnxCmplt+ RxOF-...
  • Page 31 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2- ,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee00138 Data: 0000 Masking: 000000fe Pending: 00000000 Capabilities: [68] Express (v2) Downstream Port (Slot+), MSI 00...
  • Page 32 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide AERCap: First Error Pointer: 1f, GenCap+ CGenEn+ ChkCap+ ChkEn+ Capabilities: [138 v1] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [10c v1] #19 Capabilities: [148 v1] Virtual Channel Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=8 Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-...
  • Page 33 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 512 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #16, Speed 8GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L0s <4us, L1 <4us...
  • Page 34 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide ACSCtl: SrcValid- TransBlk- ReqRedir- CmpltRedir- UpstreamFwd- EgressCtrl- DirectTrans- Capabilities: [b70 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=0 Len=010 <?> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 83:11.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8749 (rev ca) (prog-if 00...
  • Page 35 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Changed: MRL- PresDet- LinkState- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF Via message ARIFwd+ DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled ARIFwd- LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-,...
  • Page 36 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes...
  • Page 37 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP+ FCP+ CmpltTO+ CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC+ UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr- CEMsk: RxErr+ BadTLP+ BadDLLP+ Rollover+ Timeout+ NonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 1f, GenCap+ CGenEn+ ChkCap+ ChkEn+...
  • Page 38 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF...
  • Page 39 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 54 NUMA node: 1 Region 0: Memory at c8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Bus: primary=87, secondary=88, subordinate=89, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: c8000000-c80fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000003fd00000000-000003fdffffffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-...
  • Page 40 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP+ FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC+ UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+ CEMsk: RxErr+ BadTLP+ BadDLLP+ Rollover+ Timeout+ NonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 1f, GenCap+ CGenEn+ ChkCap+ ChkEn+ Capabilities: [138 v1] Power Budgeting <?>...
  • Page 41 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L0s <4us, L1 <4us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+ LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk-...
  • Page 42 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2- ,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee001d8 Data: 0000...
  • Page 43 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed Status: InProgress- VC0: Caps: PATOffset=03 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans- Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64+ WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256- Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=WRR64 TC/VC=ff Status: NegoPending- InProgress- Port Arbitration Table <?> Capabilities: [e00 v1] #12...
  • Page 44 Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range,...

  • Page 45: Appendix B. Glossary

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Appendix B. Glossary Term Definition Advanced Video Coding Base Address Register BIOS Basic Input/Output System Error Correction Code HEVC High Efficiency Video Coding Intel Product Code Keyboard, video, mouse MMIO Memory-Mapped Input/Output...

  • Page 46: Appendix C. Additional Collateral

    Intel® VCA 2 Product Specification and Hardware Guide Appendix C. Additional Collateral  Intel® VCA 2 Product Brief: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/accelerators/vca2- product-brief.html  Intel® VCA Product Family Software Guide: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/server-products/server- accessories/000016708.html...

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