Management system compatible with different GPUs and design method thereof

Abstract

The invention provides a management system compatible with different GPUs and a design method thereof. The management system comprises a CPU chip, a south bridge chip, a BMC chip, a PCIE slot, pins, an error indication lamp and a handheld terminal, wherein the CPU chip is connected with the BMC chip through the south bridge chip, the BMC chip is connected with the handheld terminal through an Ethernet or a serial port, the PCIE slot is connected with the BMC chip through an SMB bus, the BMC chip is connected with the pins at the same time, and the error indication lamp is connected with the BMC chip through an error indication signal line. The BMC chip in the management system can intelligently identify types of GPU board cards inserted into the PCIE slot and automatically call relevant programs to establish communication protocols matched with the GPUs, and therefore, the BMC chip can manage the GPU board cards effectively. The BMC can read information on the GPU board cards from a BIOS through an LPC bus and through the SMB bus, and functions of performing monitoring management, fault alarming and the like on the GPU board cards can be achieved by comparing information obtained by the BMC chip respectively through the LPC bus and through the SMB bus.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of computers, and in particular relates to a management system compatible with different GPUs and a design method thereof. Background technique [0002] NVIDIA first proposed the concept of GPU when it released the GeForce256 graphics processing chip in 1999. The GPU can support T&L (Transform and Lighting, polygon conversion and light source processing) display chips from the hardware, because T&L is an important part of 3D rendering, and its function is to calculate the 3D position of the polygon and handle the dynamic light effect, also known as " Geometry Processing". A good T&L unit can provide detailed 3D objects and advanced light effects; but in most PCs, most of the calculations of T&L are handled by the CPU (this is the so-called software T&L), because the CPU There are many tasks. In addition to T&L, non-3D graphics processing such as memory management and input response must be done. Therefore,...

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The GPU out-of-band management functions of these two manufacturers can use the optional SMBus bus defined in the PCIE (PCI Express Bus) specification as an out-of-band management signal, but the management protocols used are different.

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