Minisforum MS01 Coral Dual TPU Compatibility

[KLC]

does anyone know if the WiFi slot in the MS01 supports the Coral Dual TPU card?

I can't get it to show up in lspci

IF it's not compatible, which I'm starting to think it's not, is there an adapter we can put into one of the nvme m.2 slots to allow this to work?

Coral | Google for Developers

Open-source platform for edge AI accelerator development

coral.ai

Edit:
Looks like it's indeed *not* compatible, best bet is to use the PCIe slot using this adapter: Dual Edge TPU Adapter - m.2 2280 B+M key

reference:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1d38fqv

 

[virtuguy]

you need a "A+E key", but as far i can tell the MS01 Wifi slot does not provide 2 lanes => a dual TPU needs 2 lanes.






I would not bother about a coral anymore and just use openvino => https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/12jw7bb

 

[KLC]

you need a "A+E key", but as far i can tell the MS01 Wifi slot does not provide 2 lanes => a dual TPU needs 2 lanes.


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I would not bother about a coral anymore and just use openvino => https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/12jw7bb

Thanks! hows the performance on ooenvino? I’m seeing its a little slower than a single coral - likely not significant. I’m looking at about 12 cameras on Frigate, which is why I went with the dual TPU. I have the I5-12600H.

I found a pcie card that supports 2 dual coral TPUs

 

[virtuguy]

a 12gen intel should stay below 10ms, good enough.

 

[Harambe]

I found a pcie card that supports 2 dual coral TPUs

Can you link what you got?

 

[KLC]

Can you link what you got?

it’s in the original post

Dual Edge TPU Adapter - m.2 2280 B+M key

Dual Edge TPU Adapter is designed for Coral m.2 Accelerator with Dual Edge TPU to be used on a system with m.2 2280 B- or M-key slot available.

www.makerfabs.com

The manufacturer’s site is here, he has a lot of other cool stuff.

MBS Shop

Main page

mbs-shop.online

also, I haven’t bought it yet, still waiting for the rest of my MS01 units to ship from the minisforum store. I placed the order first week or November and they still haven’t shipped. @Patrick if you have any pull at Minisforum, maybe you can help?

 

[ojessie]

I'm also interested in the compatibility of googls coral products Products | Coral ... I got a message from minisforum support saying that they cannot confirm because they didn't test it.

 

[56ip1234]

I have two dual TPU coral cards that I bought because the single A+E coral was unavailable. I knew that both TPUs wouldn't work in almost all A+E slots, but assumed I could get at least one to work. In my Beelink EQi12 that is the case. I installed the card, one TPU showed up in Proxmox, and it works well in Frigate when passed through to my Home Assistant VM. Unfortunately, in my MS-01I don't see anything when I install at dual TPU card in the wifi slot. Has anyone managed to get a Coral (single or one TPU of a dual) to work in the MS-01 wifi slot? A minipcie Coral works when it is in an adapter in the pcie slot in the MS-01, but I was hoping to use the PCIE slot for a SAS card.