News Alibaba claims it will launch a server-grade RISC-V processor this year

[Admin]

Alibaba continues to flex its RISC-V muscle, expects to roll-out datacenter-grade RISC-V CPU this year.

Alibaba claims it will launch a server-grade RISC-V processor this year : Read more

 

[Findecanor]

No details about the XuanTie C930 core are public yet, except for some wild claims:
* Supposed SPECint 2006 performance of 15/GHz.
* Supposed compliance with the "RVA24" profile, on which work has hardly even started yet.

 

[JTWrenn]

Am I the only who read that as Alabama and was terrified for a minute?

Will be interesting to see what they come out with and if any software supports it. For now it has a whole lot to catch up to.

 

[JamesJones44]

Am I the only who read that as Alabama and was terrified for a minute?

Will be interesting to see what they come out with and if any software supports it. For now it has a whole lot to catch up to.

Software support on the server side is fairly robust already. Most of the major languages support RISC-V as a target. Java or JVM based languages like Ruby or Java Script (NodeJs for example) not an issue, just install and run (C# support is currently in beta). C/C++ and Rust for example already have RISC-V target support on Linux, the software in many cases just needs to be recompiled. Popular server operating environments such as Kubernetes and Docker already support RISC-V.

RISC-V is behind in software support, but in truth for the server environment it's not that far behind.

 

[das_stig]

Always had this crazy thought in my mind for an open source NAS/router.
Risk-V, open socket, choose your number of cores and speed
2-4 ram slots for large memory capacity.
4-8 bays, maybe NVMe and 2.5" SATA models
2 or more slots for off the shelf wifi cards for AP's
4+ LAN, minimum of 2.5G, maybe a couple of 10G, managed switch
TrueNas/Unraid + open source router/linux + other software in isolated containers/jails/vm's

and if made in bulk, reasonable prices for all the components, yes I can dream 🤔

 

[ahmad1900]

Software support on the server side is fairly robust already. Most of the major languages support RISC-V as a target. Java or JVM based languages like Ruby or Java Script (NodeJs for example) not an issue, just install and run (C# support is currently in beta). C/C++ and Rust for example already have RISC-V target support on Linux, the software in many cases just needs to be recompiled. Popular server operating environments such as Kubernetes and Docker already support RISC-V.

RISC-V is behind in software support, but in truth for the server environment it's not that far behind.

question, is risc v running well natively? Android OS only supports RISC V (but doesn't make much hardware yet) Docker only supports X86-86, Arm, PowerPC, IBM doesn't support RISC V yet

 

[ahmad1900]

Am I the only who read that as Alabama and was terrified for a minute?

Will be interesting to see what they come out with and if any software supports it. For now it has a whole lot to catch up to.

Does it work well natively, does the Android OS only support RISC V (the question is whether RISC V is good natively, RISC V uses the Android OS, the number of hardware is still limited. rather than Arm dominating)

 

[ahmad1900]

Always had this crazy thought in my mind for an open source NAS/router.
Risk-V, open socket, choose your number of cores and speed
2-4 ram slots for large memory capacity.
4-8 bays, maybe NVMe and 2.5" SATA models
2 or more slots for off the shelf wifi cards for AP's
4+ LAN, minimum of 2.5G, maybe a couple of 10G, managed switch
TrueNas/Unraid + open source router/linux + other software in isolated containers/jails/vm's

and if made in bulk, reasonable prices for all the components, yes I can dream 🤔

I dont, the risc v experience architecture is still relatively new compared to the arm architecture.

 

[ahmad1900]

No details about the XuanTie C930 core are public yet, except for some wild claims:
* Supposed SPECint 2006 performance of 15/GHz.
* Supposed compliance with the "RVA24" profile, on which work has hardly even started yet.

I still don't know the performance, just try the product. Don't know which semiconductor is willing to produce it, will it use 7nm SMIC like the Kirin 9000S?

 

[JamesJones44]

question, is risc v running well natively? Android OS only supports RISC V (but doesn't make much hardware yet) Docker only supports X86-86, Arm, PowerPC, IBM doesn't support RISC V yet

In the experiments we've done we not run into issues running content natively. Docker doesn't have official support for RISC V yet, but there are several projects that add support:

https://github.com/carlosedp/riscv-bringup#virtual-machine-and-pre-built-docker

and

https://github.com/carlosedp/riscv-bringup/blob/master/kubernetes/Readme.md

This is pretty much the same path ARM took until things like above got folded into official support.

 

[ahmad1900]

Dalam eksperimen yang kami lakukan, kami tidak mengalami masalah dalam menjalankan konten secara asli. Docker belum memiliki dukungan resmi untuk RISC V, namun ada beberapa proyek yang menambahkan dukungan:

https://github.com/carlosedp/riscv-bringup#virtual-machine-and-pre-built-docker

Dan

https://github.com/carlosedp/riscv-bringup/blob/master/kubernetes/Readme.md

Ini adalah jalur yang hampir sama yang diambil ARM hingga hal-hal seperti di atas dimasukkan ke dalam dukungan resmi.

does Risc V run optimally docker. (Android, supports Risc V hardware. But it doesn't seem like much compared to the dominant hardware arm. Just try Qualcomm's Risc V hardware)