[Beowulf] A couple of interesting comments

Tim Cutts tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Mon Jun 9 01:43:51 PDT 2008


Chris Samuel wrote:
> ----- "Tim Cutts" <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 9 Jun 2008, at 1:09 am, Chris Samuel wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Our most recent vendor went to the motherboard manufacturer
>>> and said "please can you cut us a BIOS with these default
>>> settings" and they did so.
>>>       
>> If you don't mind us asking, roughly how much extra did *that* cost?
>>     
>
> Nothing.
>   
Wow.  How many nodes were you buying?  And are we allowed to know who 
the vendor was?

Tim


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