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the cfarm compile farm project compile farm news list of machines graphs contact donate request an account login the cfarm compile farm project 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 latest news new s390x machines 2026 08 28 we are happy to announce the immediate availability of cfarm191 and cfarm192 which are ibm linuxone virtual systems hosted by marist university in poughkeepsie new york usa they are the first machines in the farm with a s390x cpu architecture cfarm191 is running debian 13 trixie while cfarm192 is running ubuntu 26 04 resolute both machines have 8 cores 16 gb of memory and 1 tb of storage assigned many thanks to ibm for sponsoring the systems and to marist university for hosting them new debian gnu hurd vms in japan 2026 03 21 we are thrilled to announce that two debian gnu hurd virtual machines are available in japan cfarm431 hurd amd64 and cfarm432 hurd i386 cfarm431 is allocated 1 core 16gb memory while cfarm432 is allocated 4 cores 4gb memory each of them is allocated 500gb home storage on the same ssds as cfarm420 422 and 430 cfarm431 hurd amd64 does not yet have success on booting the smp kernel but while cfarm432 hurd i386 does successfully boot the smp kernel it only recognizes 2gb of memory other bugs and limitations from gnu hurd also affect them ipv6 does not work for now note that these two vms are highly experimental and may crash frequently there is a simple script to probe them and reset the vms from the hypervisor if necessary is run every hour at 15 thanks to luke yasuda for providing and setting up these experimental systems new power9 vms in japan 2026 03 21 we are happy to announce the immediate availability of 8 virtual machines on power9 in japan the power9 hardware is raptorcs talos 2 running dual 02cy227 22 cores each while this is not official ibm server it is one of the only few power hardware that average consumers can purchase cfarm29 which runs on raptorcs blackbird is the little brother of the talos 2 board the hypervisor runs on debian 12 bookworm with a pagesize 64k kernel cfarm433 434 are each allocated 64 cores 64gb memory 2tb home while cfarm435 440 are each allocated 16 cores 16gb memory 1tb home these operating systems are installed cfarm433 debian testing forever currently this is debian 14 forky but it will move to debian 15 and so on ppc64le with pagesize 64k little endian cfarm434 debian 14 forky ppc64le with pagesize 4k little endian cfarm435 debian port unstable ppc64 with pagesize 64k big endian cfarm436 debian port unstable ppc64 with pagesize 4k big endian cfarm437 alpine 3 23 3 pagesize 64k little endian cfarm438 rocky 10 1 pagesize 64k little endian cfarm439 freebsd 16 0 current pagesize 4k little endian cfarm440 freebsd 16 0 current pagesize 4k big endian they should provide a good balance of both highly parallel workload and a variety of operating systems with different pagesize and endianness like cfarm420 422 the home storage of cfarm433 440 is based on a zfs pool on sata ssds but those ssds are currently plugged into the same big amd server which cfarm420 422 run on zfs volumes block device are exported via nvme over tcp to the talos 2 server the sata ssds are not directly attached to talos 2 server because of the lack of sata ports or extra hba therefore you may notice that the read write performance of home is subject to the network latency of the san note that freebsd does not provide pre built ports packages for powerpc64le cfarm439 and powerpc64 powerpc64 packages have to be built from source from the ports collection requests to install additional packages can take extra time and may fail because the package fails to build from source thanks to luke yasuda for providing and setting up these resources view all news source code