System Requirements#

The hardware and software requirements outlined here apply to Edge Microvisor Toolkit itself. Specific requirements will mostly depend on the type of deployment (container, VM, K8s workload) and the type and number of workloads deployed on a node. When choosing the hardware device, microvisor image, and the workload packaging method, consider the requirements & KPIs of the intended applications/workloads, to ensure that sufficient residual compute capability is available.

Hardware Requirements#

Edge Microvisor Toolkit is designed to support all Intel® platforms with the latest Intel® kernel to provide all available features for applications and workloads. It has been validated on the following platforms:

CPU

Intel Atom® processor:

  • Intel Atom® X series processor

  • Intel Atom® x7000RE, x7000C, and x7000FE processor series (code-named Amston Lake)

Intel® Core™ processor:

  • 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor

  • 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processor

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra (Series 1) processor

  • Intel® processor N150 and N250, and Intel® Core™ 3 processor N355 (code-named Twin Lake)

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra processor series 2 (code-named Arrow Lake-S)

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra 200U and 200H series processors (code-named Arrow Lake U/H)

  • Intel® Core™ processor 200 series

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra processor

  • Intel® Core™ Ultra processor for the Edge (PS Series)

Intel® Xeon® processor:

  • 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® SP

  • 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® SP

  • 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® SP

Discrete GPU

Intel® GPU:

  • Intel® Arc™ B580 GPU

NVIDIA® GPU:

  • NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU

  • GeForce RTX™ 3090 GPU

Software Requirements#

Component

Edge Microvisor Toolkit Developer Node

Edge Microvisor Toolkit (Standalone Node)

Kernel Version

Intel® Kernel 6.18

Intel® Kernel 6.18

Bootloader

GRUB

Systemd-boot

Update Mechanism

RPM-based with TDNF

Image-based A/B updates