<div dir="auto"><div>Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 13:16 David Edelsohn via cfarm-users <<a href="mailto:cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net">cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The IBM POWER7 big endian systems, cfarm110 and cfarm111, will be decommissioned to simplify the OSUOSL consolidation and transition. A big-endian partition on a POWER10 system remains available as cfarm121. </div><div><br></div><div>The systems will be turned off on Friday, February 27. Please ensure that you copy any data that you wish to preserve from those systems before that date. None of the data on CFarm systems is backed up and none of the data will be recoverable after that date.</div><br>The CFarm project wishes to thank IBM for providing the systems and OSUOSL for hosting the systems. When initially contributed, they were some of the most powerful systems in the CFarm. They have been extremely valuable to FOSS community developers for over a decade.<br><div><br></div><div>Thanks, David</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As someone who's used cfarm110 ever since it joined the Compile Farm I will miss it. Wonderful machine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I guess this really spells the end for big-endian POWER.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- Sean McGovern </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div>
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