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Taiwan Universities Join OpenSPARC |
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software
Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced today the
partnership with National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua
University, and National Chiao Tung University to promote OpenSPARC
technology development.
In an announcment held on July 7th, in Taipei, Sridhar Vajapey, Sun Microsystems, gave the opening and
talked about OpenSPARC program followed by Dr. Shyu, Dean of EECS of
Tsing Hua University, representing MOE's SoC program, and Dr. Lee,
Professor of Tsing Hua University and Director for MOE's ESW program,
followed by Joe Pai, Sun's GM for Taiwan. All were very thankful to
Sun for making such leading design and technology to Taiwan's
institution and were giving a very high expectation on how this
program would potentially benefit Taiwan's technology and industrial
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Student Opportunity at Haskell.org |
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Haskell.org
and Sun Microsystems are proud to announce a joint project to exploit
the high performance capabilities of Sun's latest multi-core OpenSPARC
systems via Haskell!
Sun has donated a powerful 8 core SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server to the Haskell community, and $10,000 to fund a student, to further develop support for high performance Haskell on the SPARC.
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Community Innovation Awards Contest |
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The contest is now closed. We have received some great entries. The judging phase has now begun. We expect to announce winners between mid to end of August.
The OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest is part of Sun's $1 Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, and will be responsible for awarding $175,000 of the $1 Million total prize. The OpenSPARC Contest awards categories and award amounts are as follows:
OpenSPARC Contest categories and award amounts:
- A. Grand Prize: $35,000
- B. First Prizes: ($20,000 each category)
- i.Best University level Lab Project based on OpenSPARC:
- ii. Best University level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course
- iii. Best Architecture White paper or Application Notes
- iv. Best New Bus Interface creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC community
- v. Best Demo of an application running on an FPGA
- vi. Best Adaptation of a single-thread application to a multi-thread CMT (Chip Multi Threaded) environment
- vii. Best submission that makes a substantial contribution to the OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of the above described Categories
The Grand Prize winner will also be the First Prize Winner in the Category for which the Entry was submitted.
The OpenSPARC Contest will be judged by the OpenSPARC Contest Jury Panel, a group of OpenSPARC industry experts selected from within the OpenSPARC community representing a diverse background of expertise and experience.
Read the complete contest rules. |
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OpenSPARC T2 Version 1.1 Released |
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The OpenSPARC T2 processor is
based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor, the world's fastest
commodity processor with eight cores and eight threads per core.
Read more for new features in release 1.1
Download Release 1.1
and OpenSPARC T2 specifications |
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OpenSPARC T1 Version 1.6 Released |
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New Features in the Release 1.6 of OpenSPARC T1
- T1 core supports single- and four-thread options on FPGAs
- Reference designs boot OpenSolaris on single- or four-thread mode
- Xilinx Virtex-5 technology support
- Networking (ftp, telnet) support
These new features are designed to enable a user to build real systems using the OpenSPARC T1 core.
For further details on Xilinx, please refer to the Xilinx University program.
Download Details
and OpenSPARC T1 Specfications |
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OpenSPARC Centers of Excellence |
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Seven major universities are now official OpenSPARC
Technology Centers of Excellence:
- University of California, Santa
Cruz
- University of Texas, Austin
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Carnegie Mellon
University
- Stanford University
- University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Each Center of Excellence has a minimum two-year
commitment, during which time they'll execute chip design research
and course work based on Sun's chip multi-threading (CMT) design.
Visit our Centers
of Excellence web page. |
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OpenSPARC Course Material |
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Collaborate and share course material related to OpenSPARC,
chip multi-threading, multi-core in many areas including hardware design,
design tools, CMT Architecture, software systems design, operating systems,
concurrent computing and other related areas. We're looking for
professors who have a passion for teaching and contributing
to their field of study by sharing their course material with others.
Take a look at site we are developing and the course materials already available:
http://wiki.opensparc.net/bin/view.pl/CourseMaterial.
We thankful for the support
and generosity of professors who choose to share their
research, pedagogy, and knowledge to benefit
others. |
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What's New
FPGA Tutorial
UltraSPARC specs updated
The following specs have been updated and these new revisions superceded all previous versions.
UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 Specification, Hyperprivileged Edition
UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 S...
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Updated Hypervisor Spec.
The Hypervisor API Specification has been updated:
UltraSPARC T1 Hypervisor API Specification ...
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China Universities Join OpenSPARC
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Ministry of Education
(MOE) for the People's Republic of China announced a three-year
collaboration agreement designed to meet China's demand for cultivating
integrat...
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OpenSPARC Workshop in Brazil at University of San Paolo
University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil conducted an OpenSPARC workshop
on March 24-26. Some notes from the first day of the workshop below.
http://www.pad.lsi.usp.br/joomla/index.php?option=c...
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Latest News
ComputerWorld: Otago, Sun team up
The University of Otago has become the
first university outside of the United States to be selected as a Sun
Microsystems OpenSPARC Centre of Excellence.
The OpenSPARC (scalable processor architec...
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Scoop: Otago A Sun Microsystems Centre of Excellence
Otago becomes Sun
Microsystems Centre of Excellence
The University of Otago
has achieved a coup by becoming the first university outside
of the United States to be selected as a Sun Microsystems
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Student Opportunity at Haskell.org
Haskell.org
and Sun Microsystems are proud to announce a joint project to exploit
the high performance capabilities of Sun's latest multi-core OpenSPARC
systems via Haskell!
Sun has donated a ...
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New Zealand Herald: Otago University forges research partnership with Sun
New Zealand's fledgling "supercomputing" data processing industry
could receive a boost through a research partnership between Sun
Microsystems and Otago University.
Otago has been named...
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Haskell Weekly News: July 23, 2008
Welcome to issue 78 of HWN, a newsletter covering
developments in the Haskell community.
Issue 78: In Which Michi and Neil Become Doctors, Sun
Donates Some Sweet Loot, and Jules Is Revealed To ...
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Latest Blogs
Barton George: OpenBSD runs on HUGE list of Sun SPARC systems -- T1, T2 support coming in 4.4
OpenBSD and Niagara Support
Back in April I wrote that Mark Kettenis had succeeded in porting OpenBSD to the SPARC Enterprise T1000 server. Well just last week he reported that he had st...
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Technology for Sun Partners: Monitoring CMT Servers with perfbar version 1.2 (beta)
Perfbar is a very valuable visual tool which allows to determine bottle necks on SMP servers.
A
single full bar in this tool is an indicator for an application which
is single threaded. This allo...
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Brian Herman: Good things come to those who wait - Sun on the rise
Excellent news: Gartner grades Sun as Overall Positive in a recent report - http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/sunmicrosystems/article3/article3.html ...
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Jason Perlow: Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
Mitigating the limitations of the architecture by throwing more
cores at x86 isn’t the long-term solution either. While I don’t agree
with a lot of the things the company has done in recent ye...
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Jakob Engblom: Kunle Olukotun Interview: Heterogeneity, Domain-Specific Programming
The Radio Register has a nice interview with Kunle Olukotun,
the man most known for the Afara/Sun Niagara/UltraSparc T1-2-etc.
design. It is a long interview, lasting well over an hour, but it is
w...
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