Minimum System Requirements; Qualified Servers; Card Interfaces - Xilinx Alveo U55C Installation Manual

Minimum System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for running the Alveo U55C data center accelerator card is as
follows.
Table 2: Minimum System Requirements
Component
Motherboard
System Power Supply
Operating System
System Memory
Internet Connection
Hard disk space
Licensing

Qualified Servers

The Xilinx Qualified Servers Catalog

Card Interfaces

The Alveo U55C 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 following figure shows the Alveo U55C data center accelerator card, including the
following interfaces:
• A PCIe ® card connector
• Two QSFP interfaces
• Micro-USB maintenance connector
• Maintenance connector
UG1468 (v1.0) November 23, 2021
Alveo U55C Data Center Accelerator Card Installation Guide
PCI Express 3.0-compliant with one x16 slot.
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150W via PCI Express slot connection and 6-pin or 8-pin PCI Express
auxiliary power cable.
For the latest OS support, see
Cards - Master Release Notes and Known
For deployment installations, a minimum of 16 GB plus application memory
requirements is required.
For development installations, a minimum of 64 GB of device 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.
Chapter 2: Accelerator Card Overview
Requirement
Xilinx Runtime for Alveo Data Center Accelerator
Issues.
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