Intel VCA1283LVV Installation manual

Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator VCA1283LVV
Product Specification and Hardware User’s Guide
A reference document used to provide a high level overview of product features and support
requirements.
Revision 1.4.2
August 2016
Intel® Server Boards and Systems

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Document Revision History
Date Published
Revision
Revision Change Description
October 2015
1.0
Production - First Public Release
November 2015
1.1
Added Max TDP data to Board Feature set table in section 2.2
March 2016
1.2
Removed Hynix from memory list in section 4.3
April 2016
1.3
Added Host BIOS and Memory requirements (Sections 2.3-2.4), updated URLs/QR codes
May 2016
1.4
Added BIOS/EEPROM compatibility matrix
July 2016
1.4.1
Updated System Compatibility list in section 2.6
August 2016
1.4.2
Change GPU maximum frequency from 1.15GHz to 1.0GHz

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Table of Contents
DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY.........................................................................................................................................................I
DISCLAIMER ........................................................................................................................................................................................... II
1. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................................................1
1.1 DOCUMENT OUTLINE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 OTHER REFERENCE MATERIALS.......................................................................................................................................................................... 1
2. PRODUCT OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................................2
2.1 ORDER INFORMATION........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 FEATURE SET ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.3 HOST SYSTEM REQUIRED BIOS FEATURES ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
2.4 INTEL®VISUAL COMPUTE ACCELERATOR EEPROM/SOFTWARE RELEASE COMPATIBILITY MATRIX.................................................... 4
2.5 HOST SYSTEM MINIMUM MEMORY REQUIREMENTS....................................................................................................................................... 4
2.6 SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY LIST.............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
2.7 ARCHITECTURE BLOCK DIAGRAM ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6
3. BOARD SPECIFICATIONS & SUPPORT REQUIREMENTS .....................................................................................................7
3.1 MECHANICAL SPECIFICATION.............................................................................................................................................................................. 7
3.2 VCA CARD ASSEMBLY ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
3.3 THERMAL AND AIR FLOW SPECIFICATION......................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.4 POWER SPECIFICATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
3.4.1 12V AUX Power Connector Specification and Pinout ......................................................................................................... 10
4. MEMORY ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 MEMORY POPULATION RULES......................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.2 SUPPORTED MEMORY ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 MEMORY COMPATIBILITY LIST......................................................................................................................................................................... 13
5. OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT ............................................................................................................................................. 14
5.1 SUPPORTED HOST OPERATING SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................................... 14
5.1.1 Reference boot OS on Visual Compute Accelerator ............................................................................................................ 14
5.2 SUPPORTED HYPERVISOR ................................................................................................................................................................................. 14
5.3 GUEST OS........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
6. LIGHT GUIDED DIAGNOSTICS................................................................................................................................................. 15
6.1 POWER LEDS..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
6.2 PROCESSOR CATERR LEDS........................................................................................................................................................................... 15
7. BIOS IMAGE SELECTION JUMPERS ....................................................................................................................................... 16
APPENDIX A: INTEL SERVER SYSTEM SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................ 17

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List of Figures
Figure 1. Product Architectural Block Diagram......................................................................................................................6
Figure 2. VCA Card Power Connectors ................................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 3. VCA Card DIMM Slots.................................................................................................................................................. 12
Figure 4. Light Guided Diagnostics - Power State LEDs.................................................................................................. 15
Figure 5. Light Guided Diagnostics - Processor CATERR LEDs .................................................................................... 15
Figure 6. VCA Card BIOS Recovery Jumpers........................................................................................................................ 16
Figure 7. 2-Slot PCIe Riser Card................................................................................................................................................. 17
Figure 8. Auxiliary 12V Power Cable (iPC AXXGPGPUCABLE) ...................................................................................... 18
Figure 9. Air Duct included in Intel® Accessory Kit AWTCOPRODUCT ..................................................................... 18
Figure 10. Shipping Bracket ........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Figure 11. Shipping Bracket Placement ................................................................................................................................. 20

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1. Introduction
This document provides a high level overview of the product features, functions, and support requirements
of the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) card.
1.1 Document Outline
This document is divided into the following chapter:
Chapter 1 –Introduction
Chapter 2 –Product Overview
Chapter 3 –Board Specifications and Support Requirements
Chapter 4 –Memory Support
Chapter 5 –Operating System Support
Chapter 6 –Light Guided Diagnostics
Chapter 7 –BIOS Image Selection Jumpers
Appendix A –Intel® Server System Support Requirements
1.2 Other Reference Materials
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Product Software Guide
For more information on the Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator: http://www.intelserveredge.com/intelvca/
For more information on Intel server solutions visit: http://www.intelserveredge.com
For product specifications visit: http://ark.intel.com/
To obtain technical documents, please visit: http://www.intel.com/support/go/visual-accelerator
To obtain the latest download, please visit: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/87380/

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2. Product Overview
The Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator card combines the Intel® Iris Pro Graphics capabilities of the Intel®
Xeon® E3-1200 v4 series processor with the power of Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 series processor based server
systems. Designed around visual computing workloads, this PCIe add-in card can handle the highest end
4K/HEVC transcoding jobs as well as many simultaneous AVC jobs. Built for cloud service providers, Telco
service providers and broadcasters who need media transcoding acceleration for the growing video market.
Outstanding Performance / Power / Price per transcode
Real time HEVC transcode performance delivered at low cost and power
Fit within Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Infrastructure
Multiple 1U and 2U Server System options from several server system suppliers
PCIe* 3.0 x16 enables fast communication between host and adapter
Flexible and Portable software architecture
Full access to integrated CPU & GPU for best quality/performance
Virtual network allows host and card to communicate seamlessly
Strong ISV ecosystem for ease of solution deployment
2.1 Order Information
Intel Product Code
Order Information
Product Description
Product Type
iPC –VCA1283LVV
MM# –942876
UPC –0735858309493
EAN –5032037081986
MOQ –1
Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator Card
(1) PCIe* add-in-card with 3 x Intel® Xeon®
processor E3-1200 v4 series product family,
6 DIMM slots –2 DIMMs / CPU
(1) Quick Start Guide
PCIe* Add-in Card

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2.2 Feature Set
Board Feature Set
Details
Form Factor
Full-Length, Full-Height, Double width PCIe* add-in card
CPU
3 x Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v4 series product family, 47W TDP, 2.9GHz, 4 cores
Max TDP
235 Watts
Graphics
GT3e, Intel® Iris Pro Graphics P6300, 128MB eDRAM
PCH
1 x Intel® H87 Express Chipset per CPU
Memory
DDR3L (1.35V), ECC SODIMMs
1 slot per channel, 2 channels per CPU, Up to 32GB per CPU
PCI Express Configuration
PCIe* 3.0 x16, 4 lanes per CPU
BIOS
1 x16MB SPI Flash per CPU
Operating System Support
CentOS* 7.1, Xen or KVM support if using hypervisor
Processor Feature Set
Processor Type
Intel® Xeon® E3 1200 v4 series product family
Cache
6 MB
DMI
5 GT/s
Instruction Set
64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions
SSE4.1/4.2 AVX 2.0
# of Cores
4
# of Threads
8
Processor Base Frequency
2.9 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
3.8 GHz
TDP
47 W
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)
32 GB
Max # of Memory Channels
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
29.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported
Yes
Processor Graphics ‡
Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics P6300
Graphics Base Frequency
300 MHz
Graphics Max Dynamic Frequency
1.0 GHz
Graphics Video Max Memory
16 GB
Execution Units
48
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Yes

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2.3 Host System Required BIOS Features
The host system BIOS must support the following features:
For Intel® VCA Software release 1.0:
Support for large MMIO space (minimum 192 GB per card)
Support for large BAR allocations (must support 64 GB allocation per device)
For Intel® VCA Software release 1.2:
Support for large MMIO space (3 GB + 768 KB per card)
Support for large BAR allocations (must support 1 GB allocation per device)
2.4 Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator EEPROM/Software Release Compatibility
Matrix
VCA SW-HW
Configuration Advisory
VCA SW 1.0
on host
VCA SW 1.2
on host
Host Server BIOS
Settings
VCA HW 1.0 PLX
EEPROM
(serial # QSVV549xxxxx /
PBA ending in -404 )
Valid
Configuration
Customer can
upgrade to
SW 1.2
Valid
Configuration
Customer can
upgrade to
card flashed
with PLX
EEPROM 1.2
Required:
MMIO: >= 192 GB per
Intel® VCA installed in
the host
BAR: >= 64 GB per
device
VCA HW 1.2 PLX
EEPROM
(serial # QSVV61xxxxxx /
PBA ending in -405)
NOT VALID
Host server
will not
recognize
VCA HW
Valid
Configuration
Required*:
MMIO: >= (3GB + 768
KB) per Intel® VCA
card installed in the
host
BAR: >= 1 GB per
device
* Note that VCA HW
1.0 PLX host BIOS
settings are
supported, as well, as
they are a superset of
these requirements
2.5 Host System Minimum Memory Requirements
The Host System must have sufficient free RAM (after accounting for operating system, running services and
applications) to load the Bootable image for each node that will be simultaneously booted. (e.g., if a 2GB