[Bioclusters] Re: blade servers

[Lars G.T.Jorgensen]

This is a bit unrelated to the discussion.

Does anyone know if there are any manufactures of low-priced
blades. Where low-priced is lower then IBM, HP, etc.

Ognen Duzlevski <maketo@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> Could someone educate me on the importance of turning off hyperthreading?
> I guess I've been sleeping in the past several months...
>
> Thanks,
> Ognen
>
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Goran Ceric wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:12:41 -0600
>> From: Goran Ceric <goran@genetics.wustl.edu>
>> Reply-To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
>> To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
>> Subject: Re: blade servers (was Re: [Bioclusters] Any experiences with
>>     these guys? reeks)
>>
>> IBM blades don't have individual serial ports. I updated BIOS and turned
>> off hyperthreading in our 84 blades in under an hour using console
>> redirection in management browser. Java applet works well for me even if
>> I do it from home. It takes about a minute or two to load, but once it
>> does, it runs fine. True serial connection would be nice, but its not
>> crucial in my case.
>>
>> >
>> >     Odd, our IBM x345 BIOSes are fully serial-friendly (once it's
>> > turned on), and I assumed the BladeCenters were as well-behaved.
>> >
>> >
>> >                         Chris Pepper
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Mvh|Regards, Lars
Graduate student 
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen