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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>farm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="farkled.html" title="farkled"/><link rel="next" href="fascist.html" title="fascist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">farm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farkled.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fascist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="farm"/><dt xmlns="" id="farm"><b>farm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A group of machines, especially a large group of near-identical
machines running load-balancing software, dedicated to a single task.
Historically the term <span class="firstterm">server farm</span>,
used especially for a group of web servers, seems to have been coined by
analogy with earlier <a href="../D/disk-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">disk farm</i></a> in the early 1990s;
generalization began with <span class="firstterm">render farm</span>
for a group of machines dedicated to rendering computer animations (this
term appears to have been popularized by publicity about the pioneering
&#8220;<span class="quote">Linux render farm</span>&#8221; used to produce the movie
<i class="citetitle">Titanic</i>). By 2001 other combinations such as
&#8220;<span class="quote">compile farm</span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class="quote">compute farm</span>&#8221; were
increasingly common, and arguably borderline techspeak. More jargon uses
seem likely to arise (and be absorbed into techspeak over time) as new uses
are discovered for networked machine clusters. Compare
<a href="../L/link-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">link farm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farkled.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fascist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">farkled </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fascist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>