change bios settings via script

[Daniel De Marco]

Scott,

thanks for the pointer. It's quite interesting.

Daniel.

* Scott_Collier at dell.com <Scott_Collier at dell.com> [11/08/2009 19:56]:
>    Jon,
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>    You may want to take a look at this article:
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>    [1]http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/HPC_Dell_11G_BIOS_Options.pdf
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>    The BIOS settings depend on the needs of the applications you are
>    running.  I think the noted article does a great job comparing options.
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> 
>    -Scott
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>    From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
>    [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jon Bernard
>    Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:00 PM
>    To: linux-poweredge-Lists
>    Subject: Re: change bios settings via script
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>    Could you provide a summary of the HPC settings Dell uses?
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> 
>    Jon
> 
>    omconfig should be able to do it. You can also look on the support
>    site for the R410 and look for the Dell Deployment Toolkot (DTK).
>    The DTK is designed for enmasse BIOS changes.
> 
>    BTW - you might want to look at your other BIOS settings. Typically
>    for HPC, HT is turned off and there are a few other settings (Turbo On,
>    C-state's off, max power, and one other I think). I'm betting the account
>    team didn't put the HPC SKU on the order. The HPC SKU changes
>    the BIOS settings for you.
> 
>    Jeff
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>    From: Daniel De Marco <[2]ddm at bartol.udel.edu>
>    To: [3]linux-poweredge at dell.com
>    Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:19:04 PM
>    Subject: change bios settings via script
>    Hi,
> 
>    I just received a shipment of several R410 that I'm going to use in a
>    compute cluster and I just found out that the hyper-threading is turned
>    on by default in the bios. Linux sees the two quad cores as 16 logical
>    processors. I need to disable it in 40 or so machines. Is there any way
>    of disabling it via a script? ipmitool, racadm, omconfig, anything??
> 
>    Thanks, Daniel.
> 
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