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b9b10eb736 | 2 years ago

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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camel-cdr|2 years ago

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|2 years ago

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