The following hardware and software requirements for the IBM Spyre™ Accelerator for Power must be met.
Table 1. Hardware requirements (supported platforms)
| Component |
Requirement |
| Server |
IBM® Power11 systems |
| Operating system (OS) |
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 9.6 |
| Container runtime |
Podman and Quadlet |
| Supported cards per system |
8 cards (Model 9043-MRU, 9824-22A, 9824-22B, 9824-42A, 9856-22H, and 9856-42H) |
| 8 or 16 cards (Model 9080-HEU) |
Table 2. Software requirements (resources)
| Resource |
Minimum requirement |
| Memory |
512 GB |
| Central processing unit (CPU) cores |
10 cores |
| Storage |
600 GB |