there sometime!...shouldn't this be an enterprise-level concern not
just HPC? I mean what if you have 200 Windows machines and wanted to
turn hyperthreading off in the BIOS.
first, you don't really depend solely on the bios for HT. next,
those 200 boxes are probably spread out, and possibly not remote-managable in
the first case. next, business IT support normally has a drone class,
whose existence is predicated on doing this sort of thing. at least
at my HPC organization, there are no drones (flatter hierarchy - not that
we're just superior ;)
I would love a documented bios setting interface, but I don't think
it's salient on the radar of the mass market.
bios-serial-redirection and serial-over-lan can let you do it manually.
I know about SOL but what's the "bios-serial-redirection". Is that the
same or a different system?
bioses can have a setting which enables interaction with the bios (at post
time) through a serial port. that serial port may also be redirected over
the lan. these are semi-independent features (the first mainly concerns
the bios; the latter mainly the bmc that implements ipmi.)
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