We have a new x86 machine available running Debian testing (bullseye), gcc140.

If you need more recent software than what is available on Debian stable, then this new machine should be useful.

It has the same specs as gcc120, gcc121, gcc122 and gcc123: plenty of CPU cores, RAM and disk space.  See https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/

gcc220, our physical OpenBSD server, suffered a hardware failure several months ago.

Thanks to the commitment of our host openbsd.amsterdam, the machine is now back online with new hardware!  All SSH keys have been reinstalled, but any data that had been present on the old host has been lost.

Due to a large electrical maintainance, the OpenCompute machines at OSUOSL will be shut down and unavailable for most of the day on July 18th.

Date: July 18th, from 12:00 UTC to around 20:00 UTC

Affected machines: all OpenCompute machines, that is: gcc120, gcc121, gcc122, gcc123 for the public part.

A new SPARC64 machine running Debian is available. It has a relatively old T3 processor, but provides 32 CPU cores and 256 threads.

It is already possible to login to this new machine with:

ssh username@gcc102.fsffrance.org

Many thanks to ylibc.org for making this machine available!

The Compile Farm AIX 7.2 system (gcc119) will be offline and unavailable on Monday, May 18, to transfer the system to a different partition.  All user files should be available on the new partition when the transfer is complete and the system is restarted.  The system will be transferred back to the original partition at a later time.

We have a new machine in the compile farm: gcc203.  It is a POWER8 system in big-endian mode running Linux, that is, powerpc64-linux.

It runs Debian; it is a 8-cpu partition of a bigger machine (an S822).
That means you shouldn't normally use more than -j32 (and always much less for non-interactive runs, of course).

The Power ISA machines we now have are:

So, clearly, as a workhorse machine you should use gcc135!

The list of machines currently has some of the CPU/core numbers wrong for gcc203; we're working on it, various programs do not know how to handle virtualised systems well.

Enjoy, and please be mindful of others!

Following a 4-months outage period, gcc20 has been brought back online thanks to our host Inria.

We took this opportunity to perform a much-needed upgrade from wheezy to stretch.

User data has been kept through the upgrade, but please use this opportunity to clean up your old data! Currently, 729 GB of disk space is used out of a 825 GB capacity.

Two farm servers, gcc75 and gcc76, are going to be shut down and moved on May 6th. If you have data you care about on these machines, please fetch it now! The servers may be hosted somewhere else in the future, but there is no ETA.

Many thanks to INSA Rouen for the 7 years of hosting!

We are pleased to announce that a new machine is available in the farm: gcc220, a physical server running OpenBSD. With 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM, it is more powerful than the existing OpenBSD VM, gcc300.

Many thanks to openbsd.amsterdam for providing both the machine and the hosting!

The new machine can be reached over SSH at gcc220.fsffrance.org and is located in Amsterdam.

In November 2018, gcc118 suffered from a filesystem issue after upgrading the kernel.

Thanks to the excellent support from OSUOSL students, the machine has been reinstalled with a more recent OpenSUSE version (15.0) and is available again for farm usage! Unfortunately, we couldn't recover any user data.

The SSH key of the server has changed. You will need to clear the old key from your known_hosts file:

ssh-keygen -R gcc118.fsffrance.org

ssh-keygen -R 140.211.9.107

We will look at a way to backup the server SSH keys on all machines to avoid this kind of inconvenience in the future.