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

[Peter Gutmann]

Ville Voutilainen via cfarm-users <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> writes:

>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.

Getting a bit off topic, but you can buy 8C/16T Ryzen mini-PCs for a few
hundred dollars (including RAM and SSD) from your favourite crapvendor that'll
easily outperform the usual eBay'd 1U servers, and won't draw hundreds of
watts and sound like a 747 taking off downwind while running.  I use them for
CPU-intensive tasks where I don't want to load down cfarm servers.

Peter.