I manage a build server for an open source project and it often needs to rebuild huge libraries that take at least 30 minutes to build on a 8-logical-core i7 Intel processor, maxing at several hours.
Lately I was wondering if there are some relatively cheap dedicated multicore boards which I could use for speeding up compilation times, but my google-fu couldn't find anything except Parallella on Kickstarter, googling which doesn't seem to come up with many results of my use case.
Do you know of any cheap multicore boards that I could use to speed up compilation of C/C++ software?
Cheap on-demand could services providing multicore/distributed compilation would work, but they are a lot less favorable since you would need to check that their compilers, libraries and whatnot are authentic, so that they won't be injecting any backdoors in whatever code you compile, which is quite hard to check. That's why I'm primarily looking for a multicore boards that I could manage myself to offload the compiling task to.