Hello Axelera team,
I successfully got my Metis PCIe card (16 GB single-AIPU, Device 1f9d:1100) detected and running on a Dell PowerEdge R420 (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, kernel 6.17.0-14-generic) using Voyager SDK release/v1.5.
Quick summary how I got the hardware/driver working:
- Installed in a PCIe x4 slot (bus 0a:00.0)
- Disabled third-party PCIe fan response via IPMI raw command to stop jet-engine fans:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H -U root -P calvin raw 0x30 0xce 0 0x16 5 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 - Updated BIOS/iDRAC to latest available for R420
- Cloned repo: `git clone https://github.com/axelera-ai-hub/voyager-sdk.git && cd voyager-sdk && git checkout release/v1.5`
- Ran `./install.sh --all --media` as non-root user
- Driver loaded successfully: `metis` module active, lspci shows "Axelera AI Metis AIPU (rev 02)", `/dev/metis-0:a:0` exists
- `axdevice` confirms: "Device 0: metis-0:a:0 16GiB pcie flver=1.4.0 bcver=1.4 clock=800MHz(0-3:800MHz) mvm=0-3:100%"
The install finishes with "Installation complete", but the venv only contains `axdevice`
- missing `aip-build`, `inference.py`, `deploy.py` etc. (ls venv/bin shows only axdevice).
I suspect this is because I don't have an Artifactory / API token yet for downloading the runtime wheels, operators, and model zoo access.
Request:
I believe I need an Artifactory token for the runtime/operators/model zoo downloads.
Could you provide the token or instructions to generate one?
Thank you in advance
Best regards,
Richard
SAE Engineering