Product Description
AMD Alveo™ U280 Engineering Sample (ES) Data Center accelerator cards are designed to meet the constantly changing needs of the modern Data Center. Built on the AMD 16nm UltraScale+™ architecture, Alveo U280 ES offers 8GB of HBM2 410 GB/s bandwidth to provide high-performance, adaptable acceleration for memory-bound, compute intensive applications including database, analytics, and machine learning inference. The U280 ES acceleration card includes PCI Express 4.0 support to leverage the latest server interconnect infrastructure for high-bandwidth host processors.
Alveo accelerator cards are adaptable to changing acceleration requirements and algorithm standards, capable of accelerating any workload without changing hardware, and reduce overall cost of ownership.
The Alveo U280 ES1 Data Center Accelerator cards can be utilized for application development and prototyping. The U280 ES1 cards include a USB cable and right angle auxiliary power cable for developers.
For production Alveo U280 information, see the Alveo U280 production card page.
Key Features & Benefits
Fast – Highest Performance
- High performance compute resources combined with high bandwidth memory for over 8x improvement in database workload performance
Adaptable – Accelerate Any Workload
- Database search to natural language processing to any workload using the same accelerator card. As workload algorithms evolve, use reconfigurable hardware to adapt faster than fixed-function accelerator card product cycles
Accessible – Cloud <-> On-Premises Mobility
- Deploy solutions on the cloud or on-premises interchangeably, scalable to application requirements
| Card Specifications | U280 ES | |
|---|---|---|
| Thermal Cooling | Passive | Active |
| Compute | ||
| INT8 TOPs (peak) | 24.5 | 24.5 |
| Dimensions | ||
| Width | Dual Slot | Dual Slot |
| Form Factor | Full Height, 3/4 Length | Full Height, Full Length |
| DRAM Memory | ||
| HBM2 Total Capacity | 8GB | 8GB |
| HBM2 Total Bandwidth | 410GB/s | 410GB/s |
| DDR Format | 2x 16GB 72b DIMM DDR4 | 2x 16GB 72b DIMM DDR4 |
| DDR Memory Capacity | 32GB | 32GB |
| DDR Total Bandwidth | 38GB/s | 38GB/s |
| SRAM Memory | ||
| Internal SRAM Capacity | 41MB | 41MB |
| Internal SRAM Total Bandwidth | 30TB/s | 30TB/s |
| Interfaces | ||
| PCI Express | Gen4x8 | Gen4x8 |
| Network Interfaces | 2x QSFP28 (100GbE) | 2x QSFP28 (100GbE) |
| Logic Resources | ||
| Look-up Tables (LUTs) | 1,079,000 | 1,079,000 |
| Power | ||
| Maximum Total Power | 225W | 225W |
Set Up Alveo U280 On-Premises
Download files below and follow Getting Started Guide to install.
Test Drive Alveo U280 in The Nimbix Cloud
Try NowSet Up the Alveo U280 ES1 Accelerator Card
Download the Xilinx Runtime and Deployment Shell, then follow the Getting Started and Installation Guide to install and setup your card.
1.
Download the Xilinx Runtime
The Xilinx runtime (XRT) is a low level communication layer (APIs and drivers) between the host and the card.
IMPORTANT: Please enter the following command before installing the XRT:
RedHat:
$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
$ sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
CentOS:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
2.
Download the Deployment Target Platform
The deployment target platform is the communication layer physically implemented and flashed into the card.
Develop Your Own U280 ES1 Accelerated Applications
If you are a developer, download these additional files then follow the Getting Started Guide to install.
3.
Download the Development Target Platform
The target platform for development is required if you are building your own applications.
4.
Download SDAccel Design Environment
The AMD SDAccel IDE provides a framework for developing accelerated applications.
