Advance e720 Accelerator
Card
User Guide
HP BladeSystem c-Class Type II
Mezzanine Card
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Preface
Preface
The guide describes the features of the AdvanceTM e720 accelerator card and gives you
information on diagnostics, troubleshooting, and updating the firmware.
This guide also assumes that you have experience configuring Microsoft Windows XP, Red
Hat® Enterprise Linux, or SUSE® Linux.
Accessing documentation online
You can view or download the documentation related to the Advance e720 accelerator
board and associated software at:
Contacting technical support
If you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in this
documentation, check the solutions knowledgebase or contact ClearSpeed support at:
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Before you start
This chapter gives you an outline on what to do before you install your Advance e720
Check your computer
meets requirements
for installation
See Hardware Prerequisites
on page 5
Step 1
You may need to refer to them to help you to
:
Make sure you have
a copy of the system
manufacturer’s
*
*
open the unit
Step 2
Step 3
identify an available HP BladeSystem
c-Class Type II mezzanine connector
(Type II Mezzanine)
instructions
Download the driver
software
See How to get the driver
software on page 6
Make sure you read
the procedures to
follow when handling
the card
See Card Installation
on page 6
Step 4
Step 5
Check your card
fits the site before
you attempt to
install it
Refer to your manufacturer’s Installation
Guide.
Please refer to the Bibliography for further details.
Figure 1. Guidelines to follow before you install
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1.1
Hardware prerequisites
To install the Advance e720 accelerator board, you will need;
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an HP BladeSystem c-Class server or equivalent comprising of a 64-bit Intel or AMD
x86 processor (or compatible).
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An available Type II mezzanine connection. See manufacturers instructions; [1] on
1.2
How to get the driver software
Before you can use the Advance e720 accelerator board, you must install the runtime
package and the driver software. The latest versions of the software and software
installation instructions can be found on the ClearSpeed support website:
This website also provides the latest list of supported operating systems.
1.3
Card installation
The ClearSpeed Advance e720 Accelerator card is a Type II Mezzanine card. The type
determines where it can be installed in the server blade. Refer to your manufacturer's
detailed installation instructions to identify and install the Advance e720 Type II card (refer
(1)
Caution:
It is very important when inserting the card to observe the following
:
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z
z
Always follow the precautions for handling electrostatic sensitive devices by using the
antistatic wrist strap provided.
Always follow the instructions provided by your system manufacturer when installing
new hardware.
Do not use excessive force when inserting the Advance e720 accelerator board into
the mezzanine connector as this can damage the motherboard.
1. Please refer to the HP Blade Server User Guide for HP specifc control processes.
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Features and general description
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Features and general description
double-precision, floating-point accelerator. It is designed for use in HP blade servers and
systems that provide Type II mezzanine compatible connectors.
Figure 2. Advance CSX700 mezzanine card.
The Advance e720 accelerator card uses a single CSX700 processor. The processor
implements the PCI Express host interface, permitting high data transfer rates directly with
the processor. To manage the e720, an FPGA device is used. The firmware represents the
FPGA design image and can be upgraded, as described in the [5], Firmware Update
Release Notes.
The Advance e720 accelerator card uses dual channel bus-mastering DMA to achieve a
high peak bandwidth to the host system. Each card has 2 GBytes of local card memory with
error correction. It includes onboard temperature monitoring of the processor and board.
The Advance e720 accelerator card features the CSX700 data-parallel floating-point
coprocessor. The processor is energy efficient providing 3.84 GFLOPS per watt
(96 GFLOPS/25 watts). Each processor consists of two computation arrays, each are fully
interconnected through a common address map, including access to the 1 GByte of local
DDR2 SDRAM attached to each array, giving a total of 2 GBytes for the card. The DRAM is
72 bits wide, including 8 bits of error correcting code (ECC). This allows correction of
single-bit errors and detection of multiple-bit errors.
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2.1
Firmware
Board level management is implemented in an FPGA. At power-on, the FPGA logic
configuration is loaded from a flash memory device. The contents of the flash device can be
re-programmed to upgrade functionality or performance using a software utility supplied by
ClearSpeed. This utility runs on the host system and reprograms the flash device through
the Advance e720 accelerator card’s register space.
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Troubleshooting - general guidelines
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Troubleshooting - general guidelines
If you encounter an error when using the Advance e720 accelerator board, you need to
isolate the cause of the problem.
When installing multiple cards and software in a system, install each in turn and restart the
system each time. Similarly, if you have already installed the Advance e720 accelerator
board and software and you experience problems, remove or uninstall each in turn to
establish which one is causing the problem.
3.1
Solving the problem
3.1.1
Finding the cause of the problem
To find out what is causing the problem, we recommend that you check the following:
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Check your Advance e720 accelerator board is installed correctly. See the relevent HP
(1)
Blade Server User Guide
.
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Check you installed the drivers correctly.
Whenever you fix a problem and reboot, run the tests again.
3.1.2
Contacting ClearSpeed Support
If none of the above helps solve your problem, refer to the ClearSpeed solutions
knowledgebase or you can report your problem by submitting an online report via the
ClearSpeed support website at:
1. You may use the Hewlett Packard BladeSystem c-Class Onboard Administrator software, or the BladeServer’s
Lights Out remote management feature, to confirm installation of the ClearSpeed e720 Mezzanine Card. Refer
to the HP Onboard Administrator or HP iLO2 documentation for full details.
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Specifications
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Specifications
This chapter lists the specifications for the Advance e720 accelerator board.
4.1
PCI configuration space
Vendor ID =
Device ID =
0x1942
0xE711
Classcode ID = 0x0B4000 (Co-processor)
Subsystem Vendor ID =
0x1942
0xE731
Subsystem ID =
Table 1. Register values for PCI configuration space
4.2
4.3
Mechanical
The Advance e720 accelerator board is compliant with with PCI Express Specification
Revision (1.1) and the HP BladeSystem c-Class Mezzanine card Common Specification.
The Advance e720 is a Type II mezzanine card format.
Electrical
Feature
Specification
0.5A @ 3.3 V
2.1A @ 12 V
Current
Maximum power consumption
Thermal design power
25W (25W dissipation is application dependant)
25W
Table 2. Power requirements
4.4
Thermal
To keep the CSX700 cool, the Advance e720 accelerator card is fitted with a passive
heatsink. The passive heatsink is an aluminium finned radiator that dissipates heat through
convection. For the passive heatsinks to work, they require airflow moving across the fins.
To ensure that the Advance e720 accelerator board is operating within the published limits,
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Condition
Operating specification
Storage specification
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
Temperature
10 C to 35 C (50 F to 95 F)
10 to 90% noncondensing
-10 C to 70 C (14 F to 158 F)
up to 90% noncondensing
Relative humidity
Table 3. Specifications for ambient conditions
4.4.1
Temperature monitoring
The CSX700 and the FPGA contain on-die temperature-sensing diodes which are
connected to temperature-monitoring devices. Each device measures the remote
temperature (temperature of the measured die) and the local temperature (temperature of
the monitor chip itself). The temperature monitors signal warnings if the temperatures rise
Temperature thresholds
Measurement
Alert
Critical
o
o
Local temperatures
85 C (185 F)
N/A
o
o
o
o
Remote (die) temperatures
90 C (194 F)
110 C (230 F)
Table 4. Temperature warning thresholds
There are two warnings:
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Temperature alert. This provides an indication to the driver software that the device is
becoming hot.
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Critical temperature. This turns off the device before it gets hot enough to cause
permanent damage.
4.4.2
Temperature shutdown
When the CSX700 reaches a critical temperature it is immediately held in reset so that it can
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cool and avoid being damaged. When the CSX700 has cooled by more than 25 C from the
critical threshold, it is brought out of reset.
Following a critical temperature reset your blade server may require a reboot to reconnect to
the ClearSpeed e720.
4.5
Patents
This product is protected by US Patent 7346722 and 7363472; UK patents 2341770,
2348980, 2348984, 2348974, 2348973, 2348971, 2391093, 2394815 and 2390506, or
international equivalents. Other patents pending.
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Bibliography
Bibliography
[1] HP BladeSystem c-Class Mezzanine Card Installation Instructions
(HP Part Number 413773), for example:
ual/c00700793/c00700793.pdf
[2] Software Installation Instructions for Linux
Document Numbers: 06-UG-1328
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[3] Software Installation Instructions for Windows XP
Document Numbers: 06-UG-1329
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[4] Firmware Installation Guide
Document Number: 02-XX-1510
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