Re: gcc compile farm machines down?

On 01/05/2024 15:25, Zach van Rijn wrote:

> On Tue, 2024-04-30 at 22:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 22:09 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what the current status of these machines
>>> is, or if there are any alternatives available?
>>
>> The old SPARC T5 porterbox died due to hardware issues and so
>> far we have been unable to replace it. I don't have any
>> possibilities to host a SPARC server for that, however
>> Zach van Rijn (CC'ed) is planning to help replace the T5 with
>> a working one.
> 
> This is still in progress; I have the machine next to me now and
> I should be able to set it up and get it back online this week
> if there are no issues. I just haven't found the time to finish.
> 
> It's a T5-2 with 512GB memory and a handful of NVMe disks.
> Details will be passed around once configured, and there should
> be capacity to adjust once I have a better idea of usage.

Fantastic, that's great news! Thanks for the update, Adrian and Zach.


ATB,

Mark.