FPGAs now available at Clemson

[Robert Ricci]

We now have eight FPGAs available on the Clemson cluster. These are
AlphaData ADM-PCIE-KU3 cards, which are built around the Xilinx Kintex
UltraScale FPGA. The cards have a XCKU060-2FFVA1156 FPGA and 16GB of
on-card RAM. To use them, simply allocate any of the POWER nodes at
Clemson (type 'ibm8335') - all have an FPGA attached (as well as a GPU).

These cards support CAPI:

https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/capi/snap/

... and there is a quick-start guide here:


https://github.com/open-power/snap/blob/master/doc/UG_CAPI_SNAP-QuickStart_on_a_General_Environment.pdf

More information about the FPGAs cards are here:

https://www.alpha-data.com/dcp/products.php?product=adm-pcie-ku3

You can build code for them with the Xilinx Vivaldo suite:

https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado.html

... and program them with CAPI:

https://github.com/ibm-capi/capi-utils