Nvidia DGX A100 User Manual

SBIOS Settings
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If using the IPMI SOL protocol:
1. When accessing the SBIOS configuration screen, be sure to use the 'xterm' terminal
emulator and character encoding is set to en_UTF-8
2. Double-check the character encoding by running echo $LANG
For Linux desktop users, set the character
encoding:
1. $ sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
2. Type export LANG=en_UTF-8 to set the locale for the current session
3. Type xterm to launch the terminal with the set locale.
4. From within the new xterm, use ipmitool to connect to the DGX A100 SOL console:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H {IP Address} -U admin -P dgxluna.admin sol
activate
For Windows or Macintosh users
Configure terminal application for en_US.UTF-8 support
Power on or Reboot the system using one of
the following interfaces, depending on what
the state of the system is:
1. Use the BMC User Interface to power on/reboot, OR
2. From the Operating System command line run $ sudo reboot
3. Using the following IPMI command: $ sudo ipmitool -I lanplus -H {IP Address}
-U {userid} -P {password} sol activate to access the SOL interface using the
terminal with the set locale.
4. Press DEL or F2 when the following message comes up as the system is booting.
5. The system should confirm your choice and will bring up the BIOS configuration screen.

Nvidia DGX A100 Specifications

General

GPU	8 x NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs
System Memory	1 TB DDR4
Storage	15 TB NVMe SSD
GPU Memory	320 GB total (40 GB per GPU)
CPU	2 x 64-Core AMD EPYC 7742
Networking	8 x 200 Gb/s InfiniBand or Ethernet
Interconnect	NVIDIA NVLink