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2023-09-19 — The ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter is an energy-efficient AI inference card designed for video analytics and natural language ...


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ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter
Product Guide
The ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter is an energy-efficient AI inference card designed for video analytics and natural language processing (NLP) workloads and offers industry standard framework support, directly compiling models trained in TensorFlow and PyTorch. It offers AI Engines that provide a tightly integrated heterogeneous compute platform for NLP and Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks (CNN/RNN) acceleration, targeting cloud and edge applications.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem AMD Alveo V70 Datacenter Accelerator Adapter.

Figure 1. ThinkSystem 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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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 4X67A86560

Feature code Description

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 Architecture AI engine Peak INT8 integer performance Peak BF16 floating point performance Memory bandwidth
High-density video decoder Host interface Form Factor Cooling Power (TDP) * with 50% weight sparsity

Specification AMD XDNA ­ Versal AI Core 2nd Gen AIE-ML tiles 404 TOPS* 202 TOPS*
47.6 TB/s for internal memory 76.8 GB/s for external DDR 96 channels of 1920x1080p (10 frames per second using H.264/H.265) PCIe Gen5 x8 Half Height, Half Length Passive 75 W

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Server support
The Alveo V70 accelerator is planned to be supported in the following server:
ThinkSystem SE455 V3
Software
AMD VitisTM AI provides a comprehensive AI inference development platform for AMD adaptive SoCs and AlveoTM 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.

Figure 2. Programming model 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

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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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