"XEON" (Tyan S2720) BIOS settings for the farm

Main

set proper date and time in GMT

Advanced/Boot Settings Configuration

Quickboot: Enabled
Wait for F1 If Error: Disabled

Advanced/OnBoard Devices

All enabled except for SCSI

Chipset

Disable hyperthreading for the time being since otherwise the batch systems will schedule 4 jobs here!

Boot

1st: Removable Dev.
2nd: Onboard NIC 82550
3rd: Hard Drive
4rd: Disabled

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