The cfarm compile farm maintains machines of various architectures and provides SSH access to free software developers, GCC and others (GPL, BSD, MIT, ...).
Once your account application is approved (see the Request an account page), you get full SSH access to all the farm machines, current and future.
For more information about usage, see the wiki page of the project.
The three x86_64 hosts at OSUOSL (cfarm186, cfarm187, cfarm188) will be shutdown on March 26th. They are running old hardware and cannot be moved to the new OSUOSL datacenter.
No data will be kept, make sure to backup important files you might have on these machines.
New x86_64 machines are being set up to replace these systems. The closest farm machines at OSUOSL are cfarm136, running Debian 14 "forky", and cfarm137, running Debian 13 "trixie". Additional machines with more varied operating systems might be provided in the future.
The Compile Farm project is happy to announce the immediate availability of cfarm109, an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor aarch64 machine with a 14-core Neoverse V3AE based CPU and Blackwell based GPU. It runs Jetson Linux 38.4 (Ubuntu 24.04, R580 drivers, CUDA 13.0) as of writing. JetPack SDK was installed manually.
Please note the non-standard SSH port, 2109. Standard ports and IPv6 access may be added in the future.
This system-on-module development platform (T5000 with reference carrier board) includes numerous interesting CPU features (compared to the DGX Spark's X925/X725 cores). Of note, this CPU has additional features for memory protection and profiling such as NV/2, RNG, LS64/V, and BRBE. 128GB of LPDDR5X-8533 unified system memory claiming 273 GB/s, and a 1TB PCIe Gen.4 NVMe.
Please be mindful of resources. Another difference is that it runs Linux 6.8 and will be updated less frequently than the DGX Spark machines due to a different target market and update stream.
Thank you to NVIDIA and David Edelsohn for sponsoring this machine, and to Adélie Linux for hosting and maintaining it!
The IBM POWER7 big endian systems, cfarm110 and cfarm111, will be decommissioned to simplify the OSUOSL consolidation and transition. A big-endian partition on a POWER10 system remains available as cfarm121.
The systems will be turned off on Friday, February 27. Please ensure that you copy any data that you wish to preserve from those systems before that date. None of the data on CFarm systems is backed up and none of the data will be recoverable after that date.
The CFarm project wishes to thank IBM for providing the systems and OSUOSL for hosting the systems. When initially contributed, they were some of the most powerful systems in the CFarm. They have been extremely valuable to FOSS community developers for over a decade.