Someone should run these on the $9 Milk-V Duo, which has a 1.0 GHz 64 bit CPU with 128-bit Cray-style vector (not SIMD) unit and 64 MB [1] of in-package DDR2 RAM. And runs Linux.
The $15 Pi Zero 2 would be interesting too – more MHz, dual issue, four cores. Surely the best price/performance available today.
[1] A 256 MB version has been pre-announced but we don’t yet know pricing. Anyway 64 MB is far more than the 1 million 64 bit words (i.e. 8 MB) the Cray 1 had, so should be more than adequate.
Yes! It would be great to have a common benchmarks site for everything from the Cray-1, AMD/Intel systems, RISC-V, ARM systems, POWER, etc. Some of the Milk-V systems look pretty neat, like their desktop.
The 64 core Milk-V Pioneer is indeed quite neat. I’ve been using (on and off) a machine with the same SG2042 chip (the chip manufacturer’s official dev board) since late March. If you can keep the cores busy it’s price and performance competitive with current 16 (Performance) core x86 e.g. in a web server role, developers CI machine, certain scientific/engineering calculations.
It’s not amazing as a desktop though, as much of the time you’re using only one core, and the cores are pretty weak (similar to Raspberry Pi 4, or Graviton 1, both from 2019). The tests LTT did on it were ridiculous, not using it at all as it is made to be used.
Machines with much faster (but fewer) cores are coming next year e.g. the SG2380 with 16 cores (e.g. Milk-V Oasis, but the same chip will be available on boards from companies such as Sipeed also) which will be much more suitable for desktop use.
Someone should run these on the $9 Milk-V Duo, which has a 1.0 GHz 64 bit CPU with 128-bit Cray-style vector (not SIMD) unit and 64 MB [1] of in-package DDR2 RAM. And runs Linux.
The $15 Pi Zero 2 would be interesting too – more MHz, dual issue, four cores. Surely the best price/performance available today.
[1] A 256 MB version has been pre-announced but we don’t yet know pricing. Anyway 64 MB is far more than the 1 million 64 bit words (i.e. 8 MB) the Cray 1 had, so should be more than adequate.
Yes! It would be great to have a common benchmarks site for everything from the Cray-1, AMD/Intel systems, RISC-V, ARM systems, POWER, etc. Some of the Milk-V systems look pretty neat, like their desktop.
The 64 core Milk-V Pioneer is indeed quite neat. I’ve been using (on and off) a machine with the same SG2042 chip (the chip manufacturer’s official dev board) since late March. If you can keep the cores busy it’s price and performance competitive with current 16 (Performance) core x86 e.g. in a web server role, developers CI machine, certain scientific/engineering calculations.
It’s not amazing as a desktop though, as much of the time you’re using only one core, and the cores are pretty weak (similar to Raspberry Pi 4, or Graviton 1, both from 2019). The tests LTT did on it were ridiculous, not using it at all as it is made to be used.
Machines with much faster (but fewer) cores are coming next year e.g. the SG2380 with 16 cores (e.g. Milk-V Oasis, but the same chip will be available on boards from companies such as Sipeed also) which will be much more suitable for desktop use.