[cfarm-users] You hurd me (was: Re: Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL)

[Luke Yasuda]

Hi all.

(I'm traveling domestically for the whole December, so some of my emails 
may have messed up subject lines and/or gpg sigs)

On 2025-11-18 03:24, Thorsten Glaser via cfarm-users wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2025, Collin Funk via cfarm-users wrote:
> 
>>> I think Hurd would make a good choice to help with portability of
>>> C/C++ programs for a couple of reasons.
> 
> I’d love to have a Hurd box to debug things like the segfaulting
> of GNU CVS in the testsuite. There are Debian porterboxen, but for
> ports architectures they’re harder to get at.

I counted 3 for hurd. I have some experience in managing (and crashing) 
hurdy VMs and I could set up a few hurdy VMs alongside 
cfarm{420..422,430}, on the "big fat AMD server". But it's better to do 
it after I successfully switch my ISP, otherwise it could be a lot of 
extra work for cfarm-admins. In the meantime, I should take my time to 
work out the watchdoggy script(s) to detected crashed hurdy VMs and auto 
reset them. I'm offering this, because the OSUOSL people may not be 
willing to do it.

That being said...in other news, I obtained a Talos 2 board earlier this 
year and ported a semi-working Proxmox to ppc64el on Debian bookworm. 
I'm not sure if POWER9 would still be useful for people on this list, 
but life has been changing drastically for me this year so I have not 
really had the chance to offer hosting to the cfarm. We have a 
Blackbird, but we don't seem to have enough diversity on powerpc. If 
POWER9 is still useful for some people, I could set up some powerpc VMs 
along with the hurdy VMs (after switching my ISP + securing the storage 
for /home). The said Talos 2 board has two 02Y227 CPU, 22 cores each, so 
176 threads in total. All RAM slots are filled, 1TB RAM total. ("Back in 
our days", a DDR4 stick was so much cheaper)

Cheers,
-- 
Luke Yasuda
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