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Summary of Contents for Nvidia Quadro Visual Computing Appliance
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Page 1: Installation Guide
NVIDIA Quadro Visual Computing Appliance Installation Guide NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center Fasanenstraße 81 10623 Berlin Germany phone +49.30.315.99.70 fax +49.30.315.99.733 arc-office@nvidia.com... - Page 2 NVIDIA ARC GmbH. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. NVIDIA ARC GmbH and its employees shall not be responsible for incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this material or liable for technical or editorial omissions made herein.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
5.5.1 Resetting the hard drives to the factory settings ....18 5.5.2 © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide... - Page 4 ..........23 © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH...
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Page 5: Introduction To Quadro Vca
(VCA), the fastest way to interactive, photorealistic digital 3D models and scenes. This is a powerful network-attached appliance that harnesses the power of the highest-performing NVIDIA GPUs. It’s accessible to anyone on the network, easily integrated into design work- flows, and effortlessly scales to multiple VCAs to minimize the time to noiseless, physically- based global illumination. - Page 6 Start Test 5 After you have completed and submitted all sections, a button is displayed in Restart the upper left corner of the form. Click to restart the VCA Manager. Restart © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH...
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Page 7: Quadro Vca Specification
12 GB per GPU CUDA cores 23040 CPU cores System memory 256 GB Storage 4x 500 GB Network 1x IPMI, 2x 1 GigE, 2x 10 GigE (SFP+), 1x FDR 56 Gbit/s InfiniBand © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide... -
Page 8: Physical Dimensions
Alert modes A blue LED identifies the system using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). A red LED indicates a hardware error such as a power failure, fan failure, or overheat- ing. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 9: Power Requirements And Consumption
BIOS. Full speed can also be triggered by the system. Sound measurements were made in an independent laboratory. The ambient sound level was 21 dBA, which represents an empty office environment. © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide... -
Page 10: Software
All ports are blocked with the following exceptions: Port Description Secure Shell access (sshd) VCA Manager connection port 14000 VCA Manager https port Iray connection port 11000 Iray HTTP administration console 9090 SELinux is turned off. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 11: Iray And The Vca Manager
Hardware installation Iray and the VCA Manager The installed versions of Iray are: NVIDIA Iray 2014.5.3 NVIDIA Iray 2014.5 NVIDIA Iray 2015 The installed version of the VCA Manager is VCA Manager Version 231000.8180. Directory layout Iray and the VCA Manager are installed in the directory . -
Page 12: Rack Installation
VCA in the rack. Installing the VCA in a rack Installing the outer rails 1 Adjust the brackets to the proper distance so that the rail fits snugly in the rack. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 13: Installing The Box Into The Rack
floor before you slide the VCA out for servicing. Failure to stabilize the rack can cause the rack to tip over. Note The rail assemblies shipped with the Quadro VCA fit into a standard 19" rack. © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide... -
Page 14: Connecting Cables
Four power cables are shipped in the VCA kit. Connect these power cables to either a 110V (ac) or 240V (ac) outlet. A voltage of 240 is recommended for better power redundancy in the event of a failure of one of the power supplies. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 15: Ethernet Connection
56Gb/s Active Optical Cables from Mellanox should be used for longer distances than four meter between VCAs or the VCAs and the switch. Part numbers are available from the Mellanox website (www.melanox.de). © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide... -
Page 16: Setup Intelligent Platform Management Interface (Ipmi)
1 Connect a second machine (for example, your laptop) to the configuration port eth2 2 Set this second machine to any IP address from the 192.168.124.0 network. 3 Connect to VCA-IP-address-or-hostname :14000. http:// © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... - Page 17 4 The serial number of the Quadro VCA is displayed on the top left corner of the window. Please follow the link to register the system. will change the name that is displayed when connecting with the VCA VCA Pool name Manager. VCA Pool name © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide...
- Page 18 fields of the form are submitted. Restart Network setup will test the rendering performance of the system. If the test runs success- Start Test fully, an image is displayed within two minutes. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH...
- Page 19 10 Connect a browser to the VCA’s new IP address. Using the IP address or the hostname, enter the following in the browser’s address input window: VCA-IP-address-or-hostname https:// 11 Accept certificate warning to get to the VCA Manager © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide...
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Page 20: Infiniband Setup
3 If you use multiple VCAs in a rack, each VCA has to be updated individually. Listing currently installed packages To display a list of currently installed packages, run: sudo yum list installed nvidia-vca* Updating an existing installation Notes: For Iray, the latest version number is always incremented if a new version is incompati- ble with older versions due to client-server protocol changes. -
Page 21: Installing New Software Packages
The new version is added to the repository. The old version is still downloadable from the repository. 2 To get a list of new software packages, if any, run: sudo yum list nvidia* When you run the command, the most recently installed version yum list installed of a software package is displayed in the list. -
Page 22: Resetting The Hard Drives To The Factory Settings
-P now Press the front power button 2.2 On the back of the Quadro VCA, insert the bootable thumb drive, which contains the factory reset image, into an available USB port. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 23: Installing Third-Party Software
Ensure you are near the console and keyboard, or IPMI interface, connected to the Quadro VCA node being reset. 2.4 As soon as the NVIDIA Logo screen is displayed, press F11 to invoke the Boot menu. 2.5 From the Boot menu, select PMAP, which is the factory reset thumb drive. -
Page 24: Updating The Vca Manager Database
In the browser’s address input window, enter: VCA-IP-address-or-hostname https:// (using the IP address or hostname of your VCA). 2 Accept certificate warning. 3 Login to the VCA Manager. User Name: admin Password: admin © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... - Page 25 VCA Manager Login window 4 Reserve all available nodes. Change the number of nodes to the maximum number available and click Reserve. VCA Manager Overview window 5 Check if the cluster startup was successful. © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide...
- Page 26 7 Test Iray Rendering. From the VCA Manager menu, select Test Rendering The test suc- ceeded if an image appears after about 2 minutes. The Quadro VCA is now ready for connection from any remote Iray client software. © Quadro VCA — Installation Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH...
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Page 27: Troubleshooting
MDL (MDL materials do not have to be installed on the VCA). If you require more information, contact the Quadro VCA support team at iray-vca-support@nvidia.com © NVIDIA ARC GmbH Quadro VCA — Installation Guide...