Pcie3 Fpga Compression Accelerator Adapter (Fc Ej12; Ccin 59Ab) - IBM Power System S822LC Installing The System And Ordered Parts

Widely used zlib and gzip standard format for data interchange
Up to 2 GB/s compression and decompression throughput
4-30x speed up achievable
Compression ratio near software zlib and gzip
Multiple uses including genomics, data center, cloud, and backup solutions
Operating system or partition requirements
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching
devices. To check for the prerequisites, see IBM Prerequisite website (www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/
eServerPrereq.nsf).
The adapter is supported on the following versions of the operating systems:
v Linux
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 LE, or later
– Ubuntu 14.04.5, or later
– For support details, see the Linux Alert website (www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
– For additional information regarding firmware level and additional software installations, see Fix
Central.
- See the specific firmware level for 8335-GCA and GTA at Fix Central (8335-GCA and GTA).
- See the specific firmware level for 8348-21C at Fix Central (8348-21C).
– To use the CAPI Compression Accelerator Adapter, the following software packages must be
downloaded at the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/
webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html):
- genwqe-zlib: Hardware accelerated zlib
- genwqe-tools: Tools to analyze adapter functionality plus hardware accelerated genwqe_gzip and
genwqe_gunzip
– For details on how the adapter can be used to accelerate your application, please refer to the CAPI
Compression Accelerator Adapter user's guide published on IBM developerWorks
(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/).

PCIe3 FPGA Compression Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ12; CCIN 59AB)

Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EJ12 adapter.
Overview
FC EJ12 and EJ13 are both the same adapter with different feature codes. FC EJ12 is a full-height adapter
and FC EJ13 is a low-profile adapter. See "CAPI Compression Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ1A and EJ1B;
CCIN 2CF0)" on page 54 for compression accelerator adapters with greater compression acceleration and
CPU load reduction.
The PCIe3 FPGA Compression Adapter is a PCI Express (PCIe) generation 3 (Gen3), x8 adapter. The
adapter can be used in either a x8 or x16 PCIe Gen3 slot in the system. The PCIe3 FPGA Compression
Accelerator Adapter implements the well-defined, open standard DEFLATE compressed data format. This
data format is widely accepted through zlib, gzip, Java and other applications. Within the gzip and zip
file formats, the adapter is the standard for compressed data exchange. The adapter's high compression
bandwidth reduces the latency for a single compression job significantly. Its aggregate throughput allows
the adapter to keep pace with common I/O traffic and offers reduced data for storage and network
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