Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization at Oregon State University working for the advancement of open source technologies — free hosting and infrastructure for the world's open source community since 2003.

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22 years hosting open source

306+ projects call the OSL home

1,500+ TB delivered to the world every month

6 students employed and trained each year

Hosting for open source projects

Based on your needs, we offer unmanaged and managed hosting across several environments:

General Hosting

Open source projects are invited to use our hosting services for development, which can be set up based on your needs.

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AARCH64

Use our AARCH64 servers to develop and test open source projects on the AARCH64 architecture platform.

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OpenPOWER

Use our OpenStack-based POWER servers to develop and test open source projects on the Power architecture platform and in a PowerLinux environment.

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POWER CI

An OSL-managed Jenkins service hosted on our OpenStack cluster, giving projects easier access to the POWER architecture for continuous integration.

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IBM Z

Use our IBM Z based servers to host projects, with access to the s390x architecture via Jenkins.

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Latest from the blog

Data Center Migration Complete: A New Chapter for the OSL

Lance Albertson Tue, Aug 11 2026 6 minute read

In February, I shared that we had crossed the halfway point of our historic move from Kerr B210 to Oregon’s State Data Center in Salem. I’m overdue in sharing the good news: we completed the migration in mid-March, ahead of our end-of-March target. Every server and every co-located project system, along with our entire network, now runs from our new home, and the months since have been some of the most productive in the lab’s history.

Retiring POWER8 from OpenPOWER Cluster

Lance Albertson Wed, Jul 22 2026 2 minute read

We have deprecated the POWER8 systems in our OpenPOWER OpenStack cluster and are decommissioning the hardware over the next few weeks. All instances that were running on POWER8 have been migrated to POWER9, and POWER9 and POWER10 remain available for new hosting requests. Why now POWER8 has been heading toward retirement for some time. IBM reached end of service for the POWER8 line in 2024, and while hardware support remained in place, IBM no longer provides firmware or security updates for these systems. The wider Linux ecosystem has moved on as well: RHEL 9 and its rebuilds such as AlmaLinux require POWER9, Ubuntu did the same starting with 22.04, and Debian is discussing raising its ppc64el baseline to POWER9 for its next release. We have standardized on AlmaLinux for our OpenStack platform, and since AlmaLinux 9 requires POWER9, the POWER8 nodes had stayed on AlmaLinux 8 and out of step with the rest of the platform.

Data Center Migration Update and Fundraising Campaign

Lance Albertson Tue, Feb 10 2026 4 minute read

In December, I announced that the OSL would be relocating from our longtime home in Kerr B210 to Oregon’s State Data Center in Salem. I’m excited to share that we’ve made tremendous progress on this historic migration, and I’m pleased to announce a critical fundraising campaign to support this endeavor. Migration Progress: Halfway There Cart loaded with servers, ready to be installed in new racks Since we began the physical migration in early December, we’ve successfully relocated 128 servers out of approximately 260 total systems, putting us just past the halfway mark. We’re currently making three trips per week to Salem, moving approximately 10 servers per trip. Our timeline remains on track for completion by the end of March, though we’re optimistic about finishing sooner.

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