A compile farm is a server farm, a collection of one or more servers, which has been set up to compile computer programs remotely for various reasons.
Uses of a compile farm include: One example of a compile farm was the service provided by SourceForge until 2006.
The SourceForge compile farm was composed of twelve machines of various computer architectures running a variety of operating systems, and was intended to allow developers to test and use their programs on a variety of platforms before releasing them to the public.
After a power spike destroyed several of the machines[1] it became non-operational some time in 2006, and was officially discontinued[2] in February 2007.
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