For details of Alveo U50 accelerator card we are about to use for this tutorial, visit the Alveo U50 Product Page. It provides links to all the resources necessary to become familiar with the Alveo U50 Data Center accelerator card along with installation packages and instructions on both RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu operating systems under Getting Started tab.
To install Alveo U50 accelerator card on your server, follow the instructions in the Alveo U50 Data Center Accelerator Card Installation Guide (UG1370). It provides the latest hardware and driver software installation procedures including card bring-up and validation, also the steps to deploy hardware accelerated applications using the Alveo U50 card.
Alternative Solution
Alternatively, you can also develop and deploy applications on cloud server such as Nimbix , it comes with everything you need to develop your hardware acceleration code and deploy applications to be run on the host server and installed accelerator cards.
Please choose from Alveo ▸ U50 ▸ Xilinx Vitis Unified Software Platform 2020.1 to start a compute desktop at Nimbix. And before launch a Desktop with FPGA, make sure you choose Xilinx U50 at the pull down window of machine type.
For this tutorial, you need to set below environment variable to your Terminal of Nimbix Desktop before start to launch Vitis or run Makefile command we provided with source code.
export PATH=/opt/xilinx/Vivado/2022.1/tps/lnx64/gcc-6.2.0/bin:$PATH