1.2. Acceleration Glossary
Term | Abbreviation | Description |
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Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs | Acceleration Stack | A collection of software, firmware and tools that provides performance-optimized connectivity between an Intel® FPGA and an Intel® Xeon® processor. |
Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card | Intel® FPGA PAC | The PCIe* accelerator card contains an FPGA Interface Manager (FIM) that pairs with an Intel® Xeon® processor over PCIe* bus. |
OPAE_PLATFORM_ROOT | - | A Linux shell environment variable set up during the process of installing the OPAE SDK delivered with the Acceleration Stack. |
Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable 28 | QSFP28 | The Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005 has two QSFP28 cages on the I/O panel each of which supports up to 100G Ethernet. There are four TX/RX pairs per QSFP28. |