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 > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > > -- Mvh|Regards, Lars Graduate student Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen