Intel VCA1283LVV Visual Compute Accelerator Media Transcode/Graphics Rendering

Intel VCA1283LVV Visual Compute Accelerator 3x E3-1283L v4 2.9Ghz 48GB DDR3 PCI-Express 3.0 x16 for Media Transcode and Graphics Rendering

Condition: Clean, tested pull - Guaranteed 100% working! Missing mounting bracket. SOLD AS PICTURED! Upgraded with latest BIOS and EEPROM available from Intel's website. This card requires expert/system administrator Linux skills and not meant for average users. We cannot offer any support for this product so buy accordingly.

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Description and specifications:

Full height, full width, near full length PCIe add-in card for media transcode and graphics rendering.

Intel Visual Compute Accelerator is 3x E3 node servers on PCIe card:

• 3 x Intel® Xeon® processors E3-1283L v4 2.9Ghz (3.8GHz Boost)
• 48GB DDR3-1600 ECC Unbuffered Low Voltage Memory (6x Kingston KVR16LSE11/8 8GB 2Rx8 DDR3-1600 PC3-12800E ECC Unbuffered 1.35v 204-pin SODIMM)
• 235W TDP
• Requires 1x PCIe 8-pin 150W and 1x PCie 6-pin 75W power connectors attached

Onboard this PCIe x16 card are three server nodes based on an Intel Xeon E3-1200 V4 CPU. Each node has:

• Quad-core/ eight-thread Intel Xeon E3-1283L v4 CPU
• 2.9GHz base and 3.8GHz max Turbo clocks
• GT3e Iris Pro Graphics P6300 with 128MB eDRAM
• 47W TDP
• 16GB 2x 8GB DDR3L ECC SODIMMs Dual channel memory (Upgradable to 32GB 2x 16gb)
• An Intel H87 PCH chipset

This is 1st generation VCA, and there are at least two newer versions. There is no onboard primary storage. Storage needs to be mounted using host block device or using NFS share. Networking is done using a software bridge on the host os.

"One of the key use cases for the Intel VCA was as a Quick Sync video transcoding platform. Each CPU’s GT3e GPU had dedicated video transcoding engines, so organizations such as broadcasters could quickly build transcoding farms even in amazingly dense platforms." - Patrick Kennedy ServeTheHome

Each VCA node has the option to toggle between 2 onboard bios partitions which includes a locked factory gold image and a user modifiable image. Intel documentation states that the corresponding jumpers on the edge of the card must be changed in sets of 3 corresponding with the 3 nodes on the card. If all 3 jumpers are used then the user modifiable image is selected otherwise the factory gold image is booted.

The cards boot the user designated image which contains the os and the corresponding Intel software inside the OS for networking and media sdk suite. Existing boot images can be found on Intel's site to use for testing and production workloads. Images are then loaded by the VCA from either a host block device(image/disk) or from an NFS share. Communication with the VCA nodes will then be over the user defined networking scheme using ssh.