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- Page 1 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator VCA1283LVV Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide A reference document used to provide a high level overview of product features and support requirements. Revision 1.4.2 August 2016 Intel® Server Boards and Systems...
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Page 3: Document Revision History
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Document Revision History Date Published Revision Revision Change Description October 2015 Production - First Public Release November 2015 Added Max TDP data to Board Feature set table in section 2.2 March 2016 Removed Hynix from memory list in section 4.3... -
Page 4: Disclaimer
Intel, the Intel logo, and Intel Xeon, are trademarks of Intel Corporation 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® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Table of Contents DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY ................................. I DISCLAIMER ......................................II INTRODUCTION.....................................1 ......................................1 OCUMENT UTLINE ..................................1 THER EFERENCE ATERIALS PRODUCT OVERVIEW ..................................2 ......................................2 RDER NFORMATION ......................................... 3... - Page 6 Figure 7. 2-Slot PCIe Riser Card ..............................17 Figure 8. Auxiliary 12V Power Cable (iPC AXXGPGPUCABLE) ..................18 Figure 9. Air Duct included in Intel® Accessory Kit AWTCOPRODUCT ..............18 Figure 10. Shipping Bracket ................................ 19 Figure 11. Shipping Bracket Placement ..........................20...
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Page 7: Introduction
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Introduction This document provides a high level overview of the product features, functions, and support requirements of the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) card. Document Outline This document is divided into the following chapter: ... -
Page 8: Product Overview
The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card combines the Intel® Iris Pro Graphics capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v4 series processor with the power of Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 series processor based server systems. Designed around visual computing workloads, this PCIe add-in card can handle the highest end 4K/HEVC transcoding jobs as well as many simultaneous AVC jobs. -
Page 9: Feature Set
Board Feature Set Details Form Factor Full-Length, Full-Height, Double width PCIe* add-in card 3 x Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v4 series product family, 47W TDP, 2.9GHz, 4 cores Max TDP 235 Watts Graphics GT3e, Intel® Iris Pro Graphics P6300, 128MB eDRAM 1 x Intel®... -
Page 10: Host System Required Bios Features
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Host System Required BIOS Features The host system BIOS must support the following features: For Intel® VCA Software release 1.0: Support for large MMIO space (minimum 192 GB per card) ... -
Page 11: System Compatibility List
RAM when the boot command is issued.) System Compatibility List The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card is compatible with the following server systems. This section will be updated as additional server systems are validated by Intel or by the specified server supplier. -
Page 12: Architecture Block Diagram
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Architecture Block Diagram Figure 1. Product Architectural Block Diagram... -
Page 13: Board Specifications & Support Requirements
Board Specifications & Support Requirements Mechanical Specification The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 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 14: Thermal And Air Flow Specification
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Advisory Note: The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card must have the provided mechanical support bracket (or other custom support bracket) mounted to the card to ensure proper support when installed in the system. Failure to properly support the installed card may cause serious damage should the system be exposed to any level of shock or vibration or is transported to the end user location. - Page 15 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Non-Standard Air Flow Pattern Air Flow In (card inlet) Air Flow Out Card Inlet Temp *Flow Rate *Pressure Drop 35° C 24.1 CFM 0.208 “H 25° C 19.0 CFM 0.196 “H *CFM=Cubic Feet per Minute *“H...
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Page 16: Power Specification
Power Specification The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card has a max TDP of 235W. Per the PCIe* specification, the PCIe x16 connector can support up to 75W. The remaining power to the card must be supplied via the 2x3 (75W) and 2x4 (150W) 12V AUX power connectors on the card as shown in the following illustration. - Page 17 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide 2 x 4 Pin 12V AUX Power Connector Vendor – Lotes Vendor Part # - APOW0002-P001C01 Pin# Description...
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Page 18: Memory
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Memory The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card includes three processors identified as CPU 1-3. Each of the three processors include two memory channels identified as A and B. Each memory channel supports one SODIMM socket. -
Page 19: Memory Compatibility List
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Memory Compatibility List The following list of memory has been validated for use on the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card. This list will be updated as additional DIMMs are tested. -
Page 20: Operating System Support
RAMDisk which the CPU’s boot from. Users have the option of downloading one of several different boot images available from the Intel web site or creating their own boot image. Refer to the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Software Users Guide for instructions on how to build a boot image. -
Page 21: Light Guided Diagnostics
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide Light Guided Diagnostics The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Board includes several LEDs to indicate the health of the card. Power LEDs Two LEDs located on the back edge of the card, and visible externally from the back of the system, are used to indicate the status of power to the board. -
Page 22: Bios Image Selection Jumpers
The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card includes three 16MB SPI Flash devices to store separate BIOS images for each processor. Each flash device will store two BIOS images; a locked factory default image, and a modifiable User Defined image. As shipped from Intel, both BIOS images for each processor will be the factory default. -
Page 23: Appendix A: Intel Server System Support
Appendix A: Intel Server System Support Intel® Server System R2000WT product family Server System R2208WTTYC1R - full server system with full support for 2x Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator cards Support Criteria Due to air flow and thermal limitations, the Intel ®... -
Page 24: Figure 8. Auxiliary 12V Power Cable (Ipc Axxgpgpucable)
PWR” on the server board to a 6 or 8 pin 12V AUX power connector located on the add-in cards. NOTE: Both the 2-Slot PCIe Riser card and the 12V Auxiliary Power cable are included in Intel Accessory kit A2UL16RISER2 ... -
Page 25: Figure 10. Shipping Bracket
Failure to install the shipping bracket has the potential to cause serious damage to various components within the system. The shipping bracket is only available as part of the following Intel Accessory Kit: AWTCOPRODUCT. -
Page 26: Figure 11. Shipping Bracket Placement
A power budget tool for the specified system can be downloaded from http://www.intel.com/support. The latest posted system software updates must be installed on the system to ensure proper fan speed control is enabled. The latest system update package can be downloaded from the following Intel web site: http://downloadcenter.intel.com Components... - Page 27 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide #!/usr/bin/python import time import random import subprocess import sys import re import math from subprocess import call # will hang if program never exits def runProcess(exe): p = subprocess.Popen(exe,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) out,err = p.communicate();...
- Page 28 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide return maxTemp def setPWMOffset(offset): param="ipmitool raw 0x30 0x8C " + hex(math.trunc(offset)) print "Setting PWM offset to",str(offset)+"%" runProcess(param.split()) def getCurrentPWM(): output = runProcess('ipmitool raw 0x30 0x8D'.split()) i = int(output,16) print "Current PWM offset is",str(i)+"%"...
- Page 29 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide highTemp=95 lowTemp=90 currentTemp=0 currentFan=getCurrentPWM() # main loop while True: currentTemp=getTemperature() if currentTemp >= highTemp: currentFan=changeFan(currentFan,(currentTemp-highTemp)*proportional) if currentTemp <= lowTemp: currentFan=changeFan(currentFan,(currentTemp-lowTemp)*proportional) time.sleep(waitTime)