[cfarm-users] Future of cfarm186/cfarm187/cfarm188 at OSUOSL

[mirabilos]

Jonathan Wakely via cfarm-users dixit:

> IMHO it would be a waste of very powerful and valuable hardware (and
> admin time) to have too many obscure, niche systems that most users
> are never going to use.

But that’s what the farm is *for*!

> Allowing many users to run large builds in parallel for software like
> GCC and LLVM seems like a better user of resources than installing
> toys that need lots of admin time and custom setup.

You can do THAT on clouds and the likes, too.

Incidentally, I think running large builds in parallel would be
an arsehole move to occupy a system all for yourself and very
inconsiderate towards other cfarm users.

bye,
//mirabilos
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