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