RISC-V bare metal servers now available at Scaleway

Re:RISC-V bare metal servers now available at Scaleway by b9b10eb736 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:01PM (#39555029)

According to my tests, it's billed by the hour with no minimum commitment. It's attractive indeed for transient workloads. €15.99 for one month commitment sounds okay-ish when comparing with competitor's offering at this price (but you don't get RISC-V servers there (yet)).

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Re:RISC-V bare metal servers now available at Scaleway by camel-cdr on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:53PM (#39555690)

This is an great deal for developers, if 0,042€/hour means per hour of compute. If you tests with cross compilation and qemu anyways and sometimes needs test/benchmark on the native hardware, then this means you can spend about 5€ and you are probably set for months if not a year.

Also, with the latest gcc you can finally target rvv 0.7.1, which is supported by these CPUs. You just write your standardized rvv 1.0 intrinsics and if you add `-march=64gcxtheadvector` gcc 14 will just generate the equivalent rvv 0.7.1: https://godbolt.org/z/va9sfEnMW

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Re:RISC-V bare metal servers now available at Scaleway by reefab on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:10PM (#39555885)

Thank you, this gcc14 option looks really interesting. With the lack of hardware of this class supporting RVV 1.0, this will be useful.

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Re:RISC-V bare metal servers now available at Scaleway by camel-cdr on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:27PM (#39556079)

btw, if my above reply felt a bit out of place, I though I was replying to the top level post.

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