[reefab]

While investigating the RISC-V ecosystem, we noticed that there isn't an easy way for developers to build and test their software on native hardware without buying it.

So we integrated custom RISC-V servers in our bare metal servers infrastructure and made them available to the public to enable the building, porting and testing of more native RISC-V software.

A 4 Cores TH1520 with 16 GiB of RAM and 128GB of eMMC is 15,99€/month.

[brucehoult]

Basically a $180 LicheePi 4A 16/128 (I have one), though apparently a custom board design.

The 4 eurocents per hour is attractive. What is the minimum number of hours? I see there is a 24 hour minimum on an Arm offering.

[b9b10eb736]

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)).

[camel-cdr]

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

[reefab]

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

[camel-cdr]

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

[tuetuopay]

From what I can gather, the 24h minimum is only in the Apple Silicon offering due to Apple policies that require it.