Running a 70B LLM on Pure RISC-V: The MilkV Pioneer Deployment Journey
When the 40GB download completed and the model loaded into memory, I wondered: would a 70-billion parameter language model actually run on a RISC-V CPU? No GPU. No CUDA. Just...
Docker Buildx for RISC-V64: When Infrastructure Just Works
Sometimes the best technical stories aren’t about heroic debugging sessions or clever workarounds. They’re about the moment when you realize your infrastructure has matured enough that adding new features feels…...
Building Node.js Natively on RISC-V: A 15-Hour Journey from Fork to Release
When I set out to add native RISC-V 64-bit build support to the Node.js unofficial builds project, I thought it would be straightforward: fork the repo, write some SSH orchestration...
Running GitHub Actions on RISC-V64: A Production Journey with Docker Builds
Setting up continuous integration for RISC-V64 is not as straightforward as x86_64 or ARM64. The official GitHub Actions runner doesn’t support RISC-V64, leading to a fascinating journey of finding alternatives,...
