[cfarm-users] cfarm110 and cfarm111 decommissioning on February 27

Mark Wielaard mark at klomp.org
Sat Feb 14 00:18:41 CET 2026


Hi David,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 01:15:25PM -0500, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks so much for maintaining these machines for so long. cfarm110
has been a great help keeping ppc64[be] working for valgrind (thanks
Philippe for all the testing).

So for testing ppc64[be] the only remaining cfarm machine is cfarm121?

Thanks,

Mark


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