Installing the Adapter Cards into the HP Workstation

To install the adapter cards into the workstation’s slots:

  1. Rotate the green PCI retaining clip to open it.

  2. Remove the PCI slot fillers according to which adapters you need to install. There are 8 slot fillers, numbered 0 to 7 starting from the left.

  3. Insert the NVIDIA Quadro PCIe graphics card in the correct slot, as per the tables below (Single GPU or Dual GPU). The card will also cover the next slot.

  4. There are 3 power cables tied above a fan near the hard-disk bay. Unclip one cable from there and plug it to the 6-pin end of the "6-pin to 8-pin" adapter that came with the graphics card. Connect the 8-pin end of that same adapter to the graphics card.

    Note:If you are configuring a dual GPU system, repeat steps 3 and 4 for the second graphics card.
  5. Insert the ATTO Celerity 16Gb 4-port Fibre HBA PCIe adapter in the correct slot, as per the tables below (Single GPU or Dual GPU).

  6. Locate another 6-pin power cable from the PC and connect it to the appropriate port on the card.

  7. Insert the AJA KONA 4 or KONA 5 PCIe card in the correct slot, as per the tables below (Single GPU or Dual GPU). Note: If your KONA 5 has a power connector, locate a 6-pin power cable and connect it to the card. If there is no free power cable, you can use a y-splitter PCIe power cable to free up a power cable.

  8. Optional (if ordered): Insert the Mellanox InfiniBand FDR/40 GigE PCIe adapter in the correct slot, as per the tables below (Single GPU or Dual GPU).

Once all the cards are installed, the workstation should be configured as follows:

Single GPU Configuration

Slot Card Comment
0 N/A
1 N/A
2 Atto 16G (PCIe3 x8)
3 Mellanox FDR (PCIe3 x8) Only available with 2nd CPU
4 AJA Kona 4 (PCIe2 x8) or Kona 5 (PCIe3 x8) Only available with 2nd CPU
5 Optional ATTO Optional Slot
6 NVIDIA Quadro M6000 or P6000 (PCIe3 x16) System GPU
7 N/A

Dual GPU Configuration

Slot Card Comment
0 N/A
1 Mellanox FDR (PCIe3 x8) Performance may be impacted by slot power restriction.
2 Atto 16G (PCIe3 x8)
3 AJA Kona 4 (PCIe2 x8) or Kona 5 (PCIe3 x8) Only available with 2nd CPU
4 NVIDIA Quadro M6000 or P6000 (PCIe3 x16) Background Reactor GPU
5 N/A
6 NVIDIA Quadro M6000 or P6000 (PCIe3 x16) System GPU
7 N/A