Lenovo 4X67A86560 AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter User Guide

: June 13, 2024
: Lenovo

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Lenovo 4X67A86560 AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter
Server support
Software
Warranty
References
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Lenovo 4X67A86560 AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter

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The Alveo V70 accelerator is well suited for edge applications. With a 75W power envelope, the V70 is an efficient accelerator that helps reduce cost per AI channel and provides high channel density for video applications.

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ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter

Part number information
The following table shows the part numbers for the Alveo V70 accelerator.

Orderable from October: The part number and feature code listed here are planned to be orderable in late October.

Table 1. Ordering information

Part number	Feature code	Description
4X67A86560	BVVC	ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter

The option part number includes the following:

One Alveo V70 accelerator
full-height (3U) adapter bracket attached
Low-profile (2U) adapter bracket
Documentation

Use cases

The Alveo V70 accelerator is suitable for the following AI Inference use cases:

Video Content Analysis
Natural Language Processing
Smart City / Smart Retail

Technical specifications
The following table lists the processing specifications and performance of the Alveo V70 accelerator

Table 2. Specifications

Feature	Specification
Architecture	AMD XDNA – Versal AI Core
AI engine	2nd Gen AIE-ML tiles
Peak INT8 integer performance	404 TOPS*
Peak BF16 floating point performance	202 TOPS*
Memory bandwidth	47.6 TB/s for internal memory

76.8 GB/s for external DDR

Server support

The Alveo V70 accelerator is planned to be supported in the following server:

ThinkSystem SE455 V3

Software

AMD Vitis™ AI provides a comprehensive AI inference development platform for AMD adaptive SoCs and Alveo™ data center accelerators providing standard framework support, directly compiling models trained in TensorFlow and PyTorch . Vitis AI plugs into common software developer tools and utilizes a rich set of optimized open-source libraries to empower software developers with machine learning acceleration as part of their software code.

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For more information see the AMD Vitis Unified Software Platform page:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vitis/vitis-platform.html

Auxiliary power cables
The Alveo V70 accelerator does not require an auxiliary power cable.

Regulatory approvals

The Alveo V70 accelerator has the following regulatory approvals:

RCM
BSMI
CE
FCC
ICES
KCC
cUL, UL
VCCI

Operating environment

The Alveo V70 accelerator has the following operating characteristics

Ambient temperature

Operational: 0°C to 50°C
Non-operational: -40°C to 75°C
Humidity: 5-85% relative humidity

Warranty

One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, the adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.

Related publications
For more information, refer to these documents:

ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary:
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp0768-thinksystem-thinkagile-gpu-summary
ServerProven compatibility:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven
AMD Alveo V70 product page:
https://www.xilinx.com/applications/data-center/v70.html
AMD Vitis Unified Software Platform page:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vitis/vitis-platform.html

Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

GPU adapters

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