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- Provision per chunk - one chunk specifying a particular host that needs to be provisioned with new "hardware" settings
- Provision multi-vnoded hosts, specifically a Cray system where each login node includes many vnodes, each representing a compute node
- It would be nice but not critical to extend this latter capability to all platformsplatform
It will be left to the design discussion whether we extend the existing provisioning attribute (i.e. aoe) or create a new one (e.g. ioe). Note that Cray only uses provisioning for KNL configuration changes (no application/OS changes) while non-Cray uses provisioning for application/OS images changes (no KNL/BIOS level changes) so there should not be any conflicts should we choose to just extend aoe.
Use cases for :
- configuring KNL memory models
- resetting the HPE system cache configuration
- enabling/disabling hyperthreading in system BIOS
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