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

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 01:41, mirabilos via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
> 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*!

Sure. But it's also 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.

..this. And I can't, I don't have clouds and the likes, I need to use
the farm to run the GCC/libstdc++ testsuite,
and so do others.

> 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.

None of us occupy a system all for ourselves, but we do run large
builds in parallel on the farm machines, because we need to.