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

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 10:50, Ville Voutilainen via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Buy your own hardware instead of using the GCC compile farm to compile
GCC is certainly ... an opinion.

(I know the project is no longer called "the GCC compile farm" but
that was its origin.)