Intel® VPU Device Plugin

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Updated 12/1/2020
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Enables power-efficient, cost-effective visual cloud solution for the emerging AI market for inference and media analytics applications at the Edge.

Overview

The Vision Processing Unit (VPU) Device Plugin supports the following VPU cards:

Intel Visual Cloud Accelerator Card for Analytics (VCAC-A) 

This card has:

  • 1 low-power Intel® Core™ i3-7100U processor (integrated Intel® HD Graphics 620)
  • 12x Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPUs
  • 2x 4GB DDR4 SODIMM memory, Total 8GB
  • PCIe interface to Xeon E3/E5 server
     

Intel Mustang-V100-MX8 PCIe Accelerator Card

This card has:

  • 8  Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU 2485
  • PCIe interface to 6th+ Generation Core PC or Xeon E3/E5 server

Installation and Usage

Note: This device plugin need HDDL daemon service to be running either natively or from a container. To get VCAC-A or Mustang card running hddl, please refer to GitHub.

Examples are provided showing how to deploy the plugin either using a DaemonSet or by hand on a per-node basis.

Getting the source code

Deploying as a DaemonSet

Deploy by hand

Verify plugin registration

Testing the plugin