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The Intel ACC100 accelerator functionality was tested and validated on PowerEdge XR11/XR12 pre-production servers. The following content is provided as a Technical Preview, as the XR11, XR12, and Intel ACC100 have not yet been released at the time publication.
To use the Intel ACC100 in OpenShift, the real-time kernel must be installed on nodes with the accelerator. For information about installation of the real-+time kernel, see Performance profile deployment for low latency.
Unless specified, the following steps are performed in the vran-acceleration-operators project.
Use the Custom Resources (CRs) as defined here to install the OpenNESS Operator for Wireless FEC Accelerators. This Operator is used to split the FEC accelerator physical function into virtual functions, which can be provided to pods.
Use the oc get pods -n vran-acceleration-operators command to verify that the Operators have been successfully installed and all pods are running.
A sample CR is provided here for configuring accelerator virtual functions. When the CR has been applied and is successful, nodes have the intel_fec_acc100 resource that can be allocated to pods.
A sample pod CR is provided here to demonstrate how ACC100 VFs can be provided to pods for use by an application.
For more information, see the OpenShift Wireless FEC Operator documentation.