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    Advance e720 Accelerator Card User Guide HP BladeSystem c-Class T ype II Mezzanine Card Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B September 2008[...]

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    Table of contents Advance TM e720 Acc elerator Card User Guide 2 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc T able of content s Table of contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelerato r Card User Guide Preface Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 3 ClearSpeed T echnology plc Preface The guide describe s the features of the Advance TM e720 accelerator card and gives you information on diag nostics, troubleshooting, an d updating the firmware. This guide also assumes that you ha ve exper ience configuri[...]

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    Before you st art Advance TM e7 20 Accelerator Card User Guide 4 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 1 Before you st art This chapter gives yo u an outline on what to do before you install your Advanc e e720 accelerator boar d. We recommend that you read the step s outlined in Fi gure 1 . Figure 1. Guidelines to follow [...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelerato r Card User Guide Before y ou start Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 5 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 1.1 Hardware prerequisites T o install the Advance e720 ac celerator board, you will need; z an HP BladeSystem c-Class server or equivalent comprising of a 64-bit Intel or AMD x86 processor (or comp atible). z An availab[...]

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    Features and genera l description Advance TM e720 Acc elerator Card User Guide 6 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 2 Features and general description The Advance e720 acc elerator card (shown in Figure 2 ) is based on the CSX700 double-precision, floating-po int accelerator . It is designed for use in HP blade servers[...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelerato r Card User Guide Features and general des cription Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 7 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 2.1 Firmware Board level management is implemented in an FPGA. At power-on, the FPGA logic configuration is loaded from a flash memory devic e. The content s of the fla sh device can be re-programmed to u[...]

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    Troubleshooting - genera l guidelines Advance TM e720 Accelerator Card User Guide 8 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 3 T roubleshooting - general guidelines If you encounter an error when using the Advanc e e720 accelerator board, you need to isolate the cause of the pr oblem. When installing multiple cards an d sof [...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelerato r Card User Guide Specifications Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 9 ClearSpeed T echnology plc 4 S pecifications This chapter lists the sp ecifications for the Advance e720 acceler ator board. 4.1 PCI configuration sp ace Ta b l e 1 shows the register v alues for th e T y pe 00h PC I configurat ion space heade r . T [...]

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    Specifications Advance TM e720 Accelera tor Card User Guide 10 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc 4.4.1 T emperature monitoring The CSX700 a nd the FPGA cont ain on-die temp erature-sensing d iodes which are connected to temperature-mon itoring devic es. Each device measures the remot e temperature (temperatur e of t h[...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelera tor Card User Guide Bibliography Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B 1 1 ClearSpeed T echnology plc Bibliography [1] HP BladeSystem c-Class Mezzanine Card Installation Instructions (HP Part Number 413 773), for example: http://h20000.www2. hp.com/bc/docs/s upport/SupportMan- ual/c00700793/c00 700793.pdf [2] Software Inst [...]

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    Advance TM e720 Accelera tor Card User Guide 12 Document No. 06-UG-1588 Revision: 1.B ClearSpeed T echnology plc HP is a registere d trademark of Hewlett-Pack ard Developme nt Company, L.P ., a Texas Limi ted Partners hip 1. Inf ormation and data contained in this document, toget her with the informatio n contained in any and a ll associated ClearS[...]