The Compile Farm project is happy to announce two new sparc64 LDOMs, each with 32 dedicated threads, 32GB memory, and 1.5TB of disk. They are hosted on a SPARC T4-2 server.
One runs Debian on Linux 6.3, and the other runs Oracle Solaris 11.4.
The Linux system, cfarm105, replaces gcc102
The Solaris system, cfarm106, is the Farm's first Solaris 11.4 machine and we hope it will prove interesting and useful. It has been set up with a substantial number of Oracle-provided developer tools, including Rust 1.61, LLVM 14, and GCC 12. The OpenCSW package manager has been installed as well.
We are in the process of transitioning to our own domain name, cfarm.net, online now at:
ssh -p 2202 cfarm105.cfarm.net (Linux)ssh -p 2203 cfarm106.cfarm.net (Solaris)An announcement with details about our new domain, website, and other project-related matters will be made soon. Please consider switching to cfarmNNN.cfarm.net from gccNNN.fsffrance.org for all machines as soon as possible. The "old" subdomains will continue to work but may not be updated.
These sparc64 systems are donated, hosted, and managed by Adélie Linux.
Thanks to ylibc.org for hosting gcc102
* Compared to the T3 (in-order execution), the T4 (out-of-order) has much better single-threaded performance.
Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware.
Compile Farm has been accepted as an SPI Associated Project.
This does not bind Compile Farm to SPI in any way. It means that SPI will accept donations, hold assets, and provide legal assistance on our behalf. SPI can also sign contracts for us.
Fundraising is an important function of any major project, and having the ability to do so transparently and legitimately means we can more easily acquire new hardware, repair existing hardware, and hire contractors should the need arise.
We're looking into similar arrangements with European charities.
We have a new Apple M1 machine running macOS, gcc104. It should provide the same kind of services as gcc304 (which is no longer available). Disk space is limited, so please be mindful and clean up your working trees when you no longer need them.
Many additional software are installed through homebrew. However, they are not enabled by default because they may conflict with native macOS tools. To use them, either run the custom homebrew command to update your $PATH, or use binaries directly from /opt/homebrew/bin/.
Many thanks to Adélie Linux for providing and hosting this new machine!
gcc13 and gcc14 will be replaced with new hardware on October 9th. Starting from this date, the DNS names for gcc13 and gcc14 will be changed to point to the new machines.
Data will not be copied over to the new machines. Please backup any important data you have on the old machines.
gcc14 will remain available for a limited amount of time after the change, and will still be reachable under its IP address (195.54.62.93)
gcc13 experienced a disk failure some time ago and is not currently reachable, but some of its data was copied to gcc14 under /home/gcc13/. It was unfortunately not possible to recover all data from gcc13.
Thanks a lot to Smile for hosting these machines for many years and for their continuing support!
Due to frequent hardware failures and the resulting support load on our hosting provider, the shared OpenCompute machines will be definitely shut down in one month (1st of July 2022). This applies to gcc120, gcc121, gcc122, gcc123, and gcc140.
OSUOSL has kindly provided new machines to replace them:
gcc186 running Debian 11.3gcc187 running CentOS 8 Streamgcc188 running openSUSE Leap 15.4Everybody should migrate to these new machines as soon as possible. Any user data left on the old machines will be definitely lost when the machines are shut down.
For the experimental RISC-V virtual hosts on gcc140, we hope to find a replacement solution very soon.
As always, a big thanks to OSUOSL for their excellent support!
gcc103.fsffrance.org.gcc80, gcc185) or with our existing Apple M1 machine running macOS (gcc304). When performing benchmarks, please keep in mind that the machine is shared with many users: results may vary depending on the current load. The new machine should also help in improving free software support for the peculiar M1 chipset, especially its heterogeneous core architecture.Linux gcc103.fsffrance.org 5.17.0-rc6-asahi-next-20220301-25570-gc09fe28af1d3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 10 09:33:48 CET 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux
We are happy to announce the availability of two Loongson machines with a recent LoongArch 3A5000 processor running at 2.5 GHz: gcc400 and gcc401.
As a starting point, the machines run a custom Cross-LinuxFromScratch (CLFS) build and the software environment is somewhat experimental. Feel free to report any issues or missing software, either directly or through the cfarm-users mailing list to discuss it with other users. As a known issue, some websites such as Github may not be reachable due to local network restrictions.
As usual, make sure to use the correct SSH port, as listed in the list of machines. We also provide a ready-to-use SSH client configuration, just click Show ssh config at the top of the page.
The machines are hosted in Beijing, China by Loongson Technology, thanks to them!
Due to a hardware failure, gcc220 had to be reinstalled on new hardware.
Unfortunately, it means that all user data on the old system has been lost.
On the bright side of things, the new hardware is much larger, with 12 cores / 24 threads and 384 GB of RAM.
Many thanks to openbsd.amsterdam for providing the hardware and hosting it!
We are happy to announce a quite exotic addition to the farm: a mips64 machine running OpenBSD. This is a EdgeRouter 4 with a Cavium CPU, just like gcc230. The new machine is reachable over SSH at gcc231.fsffrance.org.
The system comes with a comprehensive set of software, installed through OpenBSD binary packages. It is possible to install more packages upon request. However, note that some binary packages are missing on MIPS, such as GCC.
Thanks to Denis Ovsienko for providing and hosting these mips64 boards!
A new mips64 machine has been added to the farm: gcc230 is a EdgeRouter 4 running Debian 10.
Compared to the existing MIPS boards gcc22 and gcc23, it has a slightly newer Cavium CPU with 4 cores, but only 1 GB of memory. In addition, it has a local disk while the existing boards have their home over NFS, and it runs a newer Debian version.
As always, this is a shared system, so make sure to use reasonable amount of resources (disk space, CPU, memory). On this system specifically, memory-hungry tasks should be avoided or run single-threaded: make sure to monitor your memory usage.
Many thanks to Denis Ovsienko for providing and hosting the board!