Installation Guide and On-Premise System Update

This document provides instructions for the Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerator software, firmware, and platform installation.

• Hardware and Network Requirements - Get your physical system ready for loading the operating system and installing the driver and software.

• Driver and Software Installation - Obtain and install driver and software packages. Use the habanalabs-installer.sh script to install/upgrade the packages or install each package manually.

• Additional Installation - Follow additional installation steps according to your environment - bare metal, Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• Firmware Upgrade - Upgrade your SPI firmware.

• System Verifications and Final Tests - Verify your driver and run hardware sanity checks.

Note

• Driver and Software Installation is not required if you are using the Intel Gaudi Base Operator for Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• To obtain and install Intel Gaudi SW, drivers, Docker images and PyTorch framework on Amazon EC2 DL1 instances, see AWS User Guides.

• To use a virtual machine, refer to the Virtualization section.