Host Server Requirements for N6000-PL Open FPGA Stack

Hi,

Generally you already covered the system requirements section based on the OFS guide. As we cant determine which Bios FW to use except for the server that Intel tested on (supermicro) , you just need to ensure these settings are available on the server that you have chosen.

BMC server not really important in my opinion, just if you doing a lot of remote server work, make sure you can remote configure/upgrade and monitor the server status/screen via the BMC/CPLD

Settings in bios:

• fan speed adjustment to cool the FPGA card
• PCIe slot must be bifurcated x8 / x8
• PCIe slot speed must be set to Gen 5 (optional- even though guide says gen5 , since card is gen4 )
• PCIe slot must have iommu enabled
• Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d) must be enabled (CPU, motherboard/chipset)

On top of it , if you're planning to run multiple fpga cards in the server , do ensure the power supply wattage level is sufficient.

Do ensure disk space sufficient as well for Quartus and other design tools that you might use.

Basically that's it

Thanks

Regards

Kian