Kenneth, I cant answer your question directly. However I have quite a lot of experience recentyle in using syscfg on Intel brand servers and motherboards, for an Omnipath cluster at a UK university and my own benchmarking cluster. I find syscfg to be an excellent tool. No more BIOS Settings by crawling around with a keyboard and monitor!
One thing though - you need the latest version. I found this the hard way - by using a slightly out of date version which refused to make BIOS changes. Simple upgrade - then worked fine. Checking the release notes for syscfg: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26365/eng/ReleaseNotes.txt I found this very good guide from Prace on Xeon Phi best practices: http://www.prace-ri.eu/best-practice-guide-knights-landing-january-2017/ ________________________________________ From: Kenneth Chiu [kc...@binghamton.edu] Sent: 01 April 2017 23:06 To: slurm-dev Subject: [slurm-dev] Does slurm work well with Supermicro KNL Phi boards? Does slurm also work well with Supermicro KNL boards, such as https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/5028/SYS-5028TK-HTR.cfm My understanding is that slurm uses syscfg, provided by Intel, to configure a KNL node: https://slurm.schedmd.com/intel_knl.html I'm not sure if syscfg works on those boards, and whether or not slurm has a workaround if it doesn't. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Employees of XMA Ltd are expressly required not to make defamatory statements and not to infringe or authorise any infringement of copyright or any other legal right by email communications. Any such communication is contrary to company policy and outside the scope of the employment of the individual concerned. The company will not accept any liability in respect of such communication, and the employee responsible will be personally liable for any damages or other liability arising. XMA Limited is registered in England and Wales (registered no. 2051703). Registered Office: Wilford Industrial Estate, Ruddington Lane, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7EP
