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Setting up Intel PAC D5005 with Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL on Ubuntu Server
Hi Our research group received two PAC D5005 acceleration cards as a donation from Intel and we installed them in our server that is running Ubuntu 18.04. The server has an AMD EPYC 7453 processor. AFter installing the hardware the cards they appear as PCIE devices as follows: ❯ lspci | grep Intel 01:00.0 Processing accelerators: Intel Corporation Device 0b2b (rev 01) 61:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T (rev 01) 61:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T (rev 01) 81:00.0 Processing accelerators: Intel Corporation Device 0b2b (rev 01) Now I want to set up the boards to work with Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL. The server has version 19.3 installed and is set up to use a license server. I have set up an Arria 10 GX FPGA dev kit on a different machine before so am familiar with the set up process. I noticed that the PAC D50005 doesn't have a BSP available. Instead, it has a software stack that uses OPAE and that seems to only support RedHat linux. I unpacked the tarball of the downloaded acceleration stack and dug through its contents and found an "opencl_bsp" folder under "components/opencl". I tried setting the AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT environment variable to that directory to set up the board as I would with the Arria 10 GX Dev Kit, however the folder seems to be missing a "driver" sub-directory which is needed when I run `aocl install`. I am wondering if there is any BSP available for the D5005 that I can get and use to set up the board for use with AOC without having to install the acceleration stack? What are my options to use this card with OpenCL on an Ubuntu server? Thanks!868Views0likes3Comments