The Platform Management Communications Infrastructure (PMCI) Working Group has recently created a new informational document, Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) Accelerator Modeling. This white paper defines an example data model for implementing the systems management of accelerators using PLDM for Platform Monitoring and Control (DSP0248) schematics.

The paper helps educate the reader on the common modeling framework that can provide implementation consistency between a system’s management controller and accelerators the system contains, focusing on FPGAs, GPUs and similar devices, which offload processing from the host CPU.

This is a new educational resource and is now part of the large collection of PMCI resources already available. Click here to download the white paper.

For more information about the PMCI Working Group and the platform management standards it defines, please visit https://www.dmtf.org/standards/pmci.