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Welcome to the genwqe-user wiki!

Documentation

• CAPI accelerated GZIP Compression Adapter User’s guide
• Generic Work Queue Engine (GenWQE) Application Programming Guide
• Generic Work Queue Engine (GenWQE) introduction
• IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8: Enabling hardware compression acceleration on Power Systems

Packages

• Ubuntu GenWQE Packages
• RHEL GenWQE Packages
• [SuSE](FIXME ... put in link)

Feature Codes to order CAPI GenWQE FPGA cards

• EJ1A full-height: CAPI Compression Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ1A and EJ1B; CCIN 2CF0)
• EJ1B low-profile: CAPI Compression Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ1A and EJ1B; CCIN 2CF0)

Feature Codes to order PCIe GenWQE FPGA cards

• EJ12 full-height: PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ12; CCIN 59AB)
• EJ13 low-profile: PCIe3 LP FPGA Accelerator Adapter (FC EJ13; CCIN 59AB)

CAPI Links

• General CAPI Information
• What does CAPI provide?
• Examples for available CAPI solutions

Links

• Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB): A better way to compress big data
• GenWQE Linux Device Driver required for the PCIe accelerator
• CXL Linux Kernel Support required for the CAPI accelerator
• Initial posting of GenWQE Linux device driver on LKML
• IBM LinuxONE™ and Open Source Demo
• POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI & Hardware Acceleration
• POWER8 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)
• Nallatech Collaborates with OpenPOWER Foundation
• POWER8 CAPI Flash: In-memory expansion to speed data access
• Convey CAPI Developer Kit for Xilinx FPGAs
• Alpha-Data: Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) for POWER8
• CAPI Developers Community
• IBM z Systems Data Compression (zEDC) for z/OS and zEDC Express
• New zEDC Express Adapter Compresses Data Faster While Using Less CPU
• Nice animation of GenWQE card
• Addressing Is The Secret Of Power8 CAPI
• Sam2bam: High-Performance Framework for NGS Data Preprocessing Tools

Misc

PCIe passthru Configuration

The following information is only needed for the PCIe version of the card.

• Linux on IBM Systems Enabling PCI passthrough

Example how to setup the hard_limit parameter in your KVM-host XML config file:

<memory unit='KiB'>33554432</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>33554432</currentMemory>
<memtune>
  <hard_limit unit='KiB'>134217728</hard_limit>
</memtune>

Not setting the hard_limit parameter correctly can result in severe performance reduction.