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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 o

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 3y 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)).
- camel-cdr 3y 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 https://godbolt.org/z/va9sfEnMW
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  - reefab 3y 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.
    - camel-cdr 3y ago
      btw, if my above reply felt a bit out of place, I though I was replying to the top level post.
tuetuopay 3y ago
From what I can gather, the 24h minimum is only in the Apple Silicon offering due to Apple policies that require it.