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

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 12:26, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> 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.

Which is fine for those who can do that, but I don't need to do that
for GCC/libstdc++ builds and testsuite
runs, because that's what the farm is for.