Alveo U55C High Performance Compute Card
- Price: $4,747.00
- Part Number: A-U55C-P00G-PQ-G
- Lead Time: 12 weeks
Product Description
The AMD Alveo™ U55C high performance compute card provides optimized acceleration for workloads in high performance computing (HPC), big data analytics and search, financial computing, computational storage and machine learning.
Featuring powerful Virtex™ XCU55 UltraScale+ FPGA from AMD, the Alveo U55C card packs in high bandwidth memory (HBM2) and 200Gbps of high-speed networking into a single slot, small form factor card, and is designed for deployment in any server.
The U55C accelerator is paired with the new standards-based API-driven clustering solution from AMD and equipped with C/C++ programmability. This solution empowers a broad spectrum of customers with large-scale compute workloads to realize the performance advantages of FPGAs at 1000+ node scale, easily implementing HPC clustering using their existing data center infrastructure and network, with no proprietary hardware required.
The U55C card supports PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen3x16 or dual Gen4x8, contains 16 GB of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) at 460GB/s of bandwidth, and Ethernet networking capability with dual QSFP28 connectors capable of 2 x 100 Gb/s.
Enabling Alveo accelerator cards is an ecosystem of AMD and partner applications for common data center workloads. For custom solutions, the Application Developer Tool Suite (Vitis™ environment) and Machine Learning Suite from AMD provide the frameworks for developers to bring differentiated applications to market.
The Alveo Programmable Cable is required for development access on Alveo U55C cards. The cable provides micro-USB support from a host PC to the Alveo U55C maintenance connector.
Alveo AccessoriesKey Features & Benefits
Built for Performance & Efficiency
- Faster application performance with 16GB HBM memory and PCIe Gen4 interconnect
- Low latency network capability through 2x100G networking with support for 8x 25GbE, or 2x 100GbE
Adaptable – Accelerate Any Workload
- Accelerates compute, network, storage workloads
- Perfect for HPC workloads: Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Big Data Analytics, Finite Engineering Method (FEM), Signal Processing
- Ideal for Scale Up and Scale Out system architectures
Accessible - Cloud <-> On-Premises Mobility
- Built for scale out architectures for deployment solutions on the cloud or on-premises interchangeably
- Network Attached
- Ready for Scale COTS
- Ready to deploy in Standard DCs
- Using existing DC infrastructure
Card Specifications
For full product specifications refer to the Data sheet.
| Board Specifications | Alveo U55C High Performance Compute Card |
|---|---|
| Compute Resources | |
| Look-up Tables (LUTs) | 1,304K |
| Registers | 2,607K |
| DSP Slices | 9,024 |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | Full Height |
| Length | Half Length |
| Width | Single Slot |
| Memory | |
| HBM Memory Capacity | 16 GB |
| HBM Total Bandwidth | 460 GB/s |
| Internal SRAM Capacity | 43 MB |
| Internal SRAM Total Bandwidth | 35 TB/s |
| Physical Interfaces | |
| PCI Express | Gen3x 16, 2 x Gen4x 8 |
| Network Interfaces | 2x QSFP28 |
| Tool Support | |
| Vitis Developer Environment | Yes |
| Platforms | |
| Vitis Unified Software Platform | Gen3x16 XDMA |
| Vivado Design Suite | Yes |
| Power and Thermal | |
| Maximum Total Power | 150W |
| Typical Power | 115W |
| Thermal Cooling | Passive |
| Target Workloads | big data analytics and search, financial computing, computational storage, and machine learning |
Alveo U55C Card Package File Downloads
The U55C Alveo Data Center accelerator card supports both Vivado design entry as well as a Vitis software platform. The Vivado flow is recommended for FPGA designers that want to use traditional design flows, such as RTL or HLx, while the Vitis software platform is recommended for SW developers. Select the Vitis or Vivado tab below for the steps to get started.
Select your options to obtain the matching download files
Alveo U55C Accelerator Card
Note: See AR33838 for details on Tools support for new and legacy platforms.
For development using RTL and HLx, follow these steps:
Xbflash2 Utility
The xbflash utility can help to flash a custom image onto a given Alveo card. Please check the detailed user guide at: https://xilinx.github.io/XRT/master/html/xbflash2.html
| Description | Links |
|---|---|
| RHEL/CentOS 7.8, 7.9 | xrt_202210.2.13.466_7.8.2003-x86_64-xbflash2.rpm (zip) |
| RHEL 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 | xrt_202210.2.13.466_8.1.1911-x86_64-xbflash2.rpm (zip) |
| Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, 18.04.5 LTS | xrt_202210.2.13.466_18.04-amd64-xbflash2.deb |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 20.04.1 LTS, 20.04.2 LTS, 20.04.3 LTS | xrt_202210.2.13.466_20.04-amd64-xbflash2.deb |
