| 1 | | == Getting Started with Xilinx Alveo |
| | 1 | == Getting Started with Alveo FPGA acceleration == |
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| | 3 | === Description === |
| | 4 | Compute servers in COSMOS, and cloud computing nodes in ORBIT Sandbox 9 are equipped with Alveo U200 accelerator cards (with Virtex UltraScale+ XCU200-2FSGD2104E FPGA). These cards can be used to accelerate compute-intensive applications such as d machine learning, and video processing. They are connected to the Intel Xeon host CPU over PCI Express® (PCIe) Gen3x16 bus. |
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| | 6 | This tutorial demonstrates how to run an accelerated FPGA kernel on the above platform. Vitis unified software platform 2019.2 is used for developing and deploying the application. |
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| | 8 | === Prerequisites === |
| | 9 | In order to access the test bed, create a reservation and have it approved by the reservation service. Access to the resources is granted after the reservation is confirmed. Please follow the process shown on [wiki:cosmos_workflow the COSMOS work flow page] to get started. |
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| | 11 | === Resources required === |
| | 12 | 1 COSMOS compute server or 1 node in ORBIT SB9. |
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| | 14 | === Execution === |
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| | 16 | ==== Prepare the node ==== |
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| | 19 | * Load alveo_runtime.ndz on a reserved server/node. This image comes with XRT(Xilinx Run Time) and Alveo U200 XDMA deployment shell installed. |
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| | 22 | }}} |
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| | 24 | * Turn the node on |
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| | 27 | }}} |
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| | 29 | * Check the status |
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| | 32 | }}} |
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| | 34 | ----------------------------------------------- |
| | 35 | Node: node19-1.grid.orbit-lab.org State: POWERON |
| | 36 | Node: node20-1.grid.orbit-lab.org State: POWERON |
| | 37 | ----------------------------------------------- |
| | 38 | }}} |
| | 39 | |
| | 40 | * ssh to the node |
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| | 43 | }}} |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | ==== Check Alveo ==== |
| | 46 | * lspci |
| | 47 | * xbutil |
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| | 51 | ==== Run the application ==== |
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| | 54 | || [[Image(channel_sounding_display_orange.jpg)]]|| |