Intel IAA 2.0 Accelerator Preparations Coming With Linux 6.4

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel IAA 2.0 Accelerator Preparations Coming With Linux 6.4

Introduced with Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" processors was the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) for hardware accelerating data compression/decompression combined with primitive analytics functions for helping to accelerate the likes of RocksDB and ClickHouse. Intel IAA with Sapphire Rapids has already been supported for some time on an open-source stack as laid out in the Intel Sapphire Rapids accelerator setup guide while now Intel engineers are preparing Linux for IAA 2.0...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IAA-2.0-Linux-6.4-Prep

[AndyChow]

Sounds like a lot of gobbledygook. Is this another ROCm clone?

[coder]

Is this another ROCm clone?

I'm struggling to make sense of that question. It's like asking if an airplane avionics system is like a tractor.

These accelerators are physical hardware blocks in Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU and its successors. The patches enable userspace to use the next generation of one type of accelerator.

To learn more about them, check out the earlier article (linked from this one):

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-accelerators-linux