[cfarm-users] [cfarm-announces] New POWER10 machine

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 2:52 PM CFarm Annoucements via cfarm-announces
<cfarm-announces at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
> We now have a POWER10 machine in the Compile Farm: gcc120.
>
> It is donated by IBM, and hosted at OSUOSL like most Power machines.
> Thanks!
>
> It is an IBM E1050, 192 hardware threads, 2TB RAM, 11TB disk.  It runs
> AlmaLinux, a RHEL descendant / clone.
>
> It is open for general use immediately.  Enjoy, but use it responsibly:
> most importantly, always be aware other people want to use it as well :-)
>
> GCC bootstrap takes 26m, and testsuite takes 6m.  With
> --enable-languages=all.  But Ada and D did not actually build, I'll work
> on getting some working pre-built compilers for those installed in
> /opt/cfarm for that, which you can use to build new compilers with.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved for making this reality at long last!

Very nice!

Hat tip to IBM and the CFarm admins who got it up and running for us.

Jeff