Scaleway launches RISC-V servers

I&#x27;ll reiterate what I wrote before:<p>042€&#x2F;hour per hour of compute is a great deal for developers. If you tests with cross compilation and qemu anyways and sometimes needs test&#x2F;benchmark on the native hardware, then this means you can spend about 5€ and you are probably set for months if not a year.<p>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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;va9sfEnMW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;va9sfEnMW</a>

TH1520 with the XuanTie C910 core. Avoid. That particular platform is really incredibly slow, Cortex-A5x level. And with RVV 0.7.1 instead of 1.0 too.

I wonder what payment methods they accept.<p>On the site: no information.<p>FAQ: &quot;You can order your Elastic Metal RV1 server directly on the order page&quot;<p>click order page:<p>-&gt; &quot;create an account to view the page&quot;<p>&quot;I have a question, a problem, what can I do?<p>Like all Scaleway services, you can contact us officially via our support center, or informally via the Scaleway Community Slack.&quot;<p>click support center:<p>-&gt; &quot;create an account to view the page&quot;<p>Scaleway Community Slack:<p>-&gt; &quot;your browser is not sanctioned by our strikt kompliance kommitat&quot;<p>You know what, never mind.

Scaleway was also early in providing Arm servers, it&#x27;s cool to see them keep bringing new stuff<p>It&#x27;s maybe almost <i>too</i> early, given the performance profile of these and the current state of software compat, but the trajectory is definitely there for RISC-V. Wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to see these compete strongly against ARM servers a few years from now.

eMMC for cloud seems to me like a dangerous proposition. As far as I know, they do not hold up well to write intensive workloads. I suppose you will need to use networked logging.

Interesting step, their claim of <i>world&#x27;s first RISC-V servers available in the cloud</i> is true as far as I know.<p>I see they list 3 officially supported GNU&#x2F;Linux distros: Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine. I wonder how mature these are on RISC-V at this point and whether they&#x27;re ready for production server usage.

Doe these cpus have any cryptographic hardware acceleration? They list gpus and npus only.<p>I have an old atom-based kimsufi by ovh, cryptography will eat almost a full core when doing file transfer over ssh or any kind of https…<p>No cryptographic hardware acceleration could really be the Achilles’ tendon for this platform.

What&#x27;s the recommended way to learn RISC-V assembly (including SIMD)? For ARM I just found a book I liked and did the exercises on my Mac M1 (replacing system call numbers etc and changing page sizes).

probably the things that will be most interesting to people:<p>- SoC T-Head 1520 CPU (C910) RV64IMAFDCV0P7_Zicsr_Zifencei_Zfh_XTheadc 4 cores 1.85 GHz (though i think the v extension on the c910 is the pre-ratification 0.7.1 v extension; see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39585519">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39585519</a> for more detail)<p>- 128 GB eMMC<p>- Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine<p>- between 0.96W and 1.9W per 1.8GHz core<p>- €15.99&#x2F;month or €0.042&#x2F;hour

Previously <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39548179">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39548179</a>

Great option to use as a CI server &#x2F; job runner if one has a project targeting RISC-V. Of course one could use emulation or put a CI runner on some board in a closet somewhere. But cloud image is convenient, so it is nice to be able to do this now, just as on x86 and ARM.

100 Mbit&#x2F;s NIC? Seems a bit thin.

&gt; We are committed to providing you with the best possible experience, but please note that the artisanal design and the youth of RISC-V processor architectures do not allow us to guarantee a specific level of service, resulting in an SLA of 0%.

This looks interesting, I have been meaning to try RISC-V outside of an emulated environment. I have a visionfive board on my desk but gave up trying to figure out how to flash a production OS. There was some shady version of Fedora they offer but I prefer to flash my own via buildroot or yocto.

These guys are unbelievable. They were the first to provide ARM servers (non-virtual, if I remember correctly), and now this. I hope they are benefitting from those innovations.

Does Docker work with RISC-V?

I couldn&#x27;t find the value, but how much are they charging per month for these boxes? I see they have 4 CPU cores and 16gb of RAM.

Can we ditch virtual machines if we are packing 672 servers per rack?