Can I use the PCIe adapter w/QNAP

magic-blue-smoke / Dual-Edge-TPU-Adapter

Dual Edge TPU Adapter to use it on a system with single PCIe port on m.2 A/B/E/M slot

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Can I use the PCIe adapter w/QNAP #51

Open diegoroccia opened 11 months ago

diegoroccia commented 11 months ago

Hi! I have a QNAP TS-264 which is already working well with a Coral USB external TPU. Now I would like to find a way to use it with the M.2 Accelerator with Dual Edge TPU (Key E) which I have sitting in the drawer.

Since the QNAP has one PCIe Gen 3 x2 expansion slot, I was wondering if I can use the Dual Edge TPU Adapter - PCIe x1 Low Profile and if this will allow me to see both TPUs from the QNAP

magic-blue-smoke commented 10 months ago

Hi @diegoroccia QNAP TS-264 is compatible with m.2 M-key Coral TPU card according to this Official Compatibility List What is under question is if adapter can:

fit mechanically (increased height compared to m.2 drive)
QNAP software can use more that one TPU

If you have some enthusiasm to test this config, send me a message using a form at the bottom of this page

diegoroccia commented 10 months ago

Hey @magic-blue-smoke thank you for your answer. Since

I already have the M2 E-Key dual TPU
I am using the M2 slots for SSDs already

I was hoping to be able to make use of the PCIe slot and get 2 TPUs to work.

Are you saying that you expect this to not work?