[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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