Minimum System Requirements; Qualified Servers; Card Interfaces And Details - Xilinx Alveo U50 Installation Manual

Note: The Alveo U50 card has separate power rails for FPGA fabric and HBM memory. Developers must
ensure their designs do not draw too much power for each rail. The HBM rail is a 10W rail, and may limit
HBM performance (see AR75222). For details on how to monitor power and temperature, see
Card Power and Temperature.

Minimum System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for running the Alveo™ U50 Data Center accelerator cards
are listed in the following table.
Table 2: Minimum System Requirements
Component
Motherboard
System Power Supply
Operating System
System Memory
Internet Connection
Hard disk space
Licensing
For details on the acceptable environmental conditions, see Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator
Cards Data Sheet (DS965).

Qualified Servers

The Xilinx Qualified Servers Catalog

Card Interfaces and Details

The Alveo™ U50 accelerator card is available in a passive cooling configuration and is designed
for installation into a data center server where controlled air flow provides direct cooling to the
card. The card includes the following interfaces.
UG1370 (v1.8) October 28, 2021
Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator Card Installation Guide
PCI Express 3.0-compliant with one x16 slot.
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75W via PCI Express slot connection.
For the latest OS support see the
For deployment installations, a minimum of 16 GB plus application memory
requirements is required.
For development installations, a minimum of 64 GB of system memory is
required, but 80 GB is recommended.
Required for downloading drivers and utilities.
Satisfy the minimum system requirements for your operating system.
None required for application deployment.
For the application development environment, see Vitis Unified Software
Platform Documentation: Application Acceleration Development (UG1393).
provides a list of servers that Alveo cards are fully qualified.
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