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European Universities Join OpenSPARC |

Sun Microsystems,
Inc. and Europractice today announced a three-year
collaboration to promote OpenSPARC CMT (Chip Multithreading)
technology -- one of the only open sourced multi-core, multithreaded
processor architectures--as a reference design among 650 universities
and research institutions across 38 countries in the European region.
Europractice is a European Union-backed non-profit microelectronics
design stimulation project managed by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. |
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Slidecast: All About OpenSPARC |
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The All About OpenSPARC Slidecast are 12
modules of on-line training by designers, developers, and programmers
who worked on the creation of the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 microprocessors.
These are made available to guide users as they develop their own
OpenSPARC designs and to assist professors as they teach the next
generation of processor designers. The twelve chapters cover the
different aspects of OpenSPARC and together are equivalent to a 2 day
technical OpenSPARC workshop.
The slidecasts (presentation with a voiceover), the PDF files and the
star/openoffice files are available. We are providing this material under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. |
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Community Innovation Awards Contest Winners! |
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The
winners of the OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest designed
to fuel innovation around chip technology. The contest was part of
Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year
program running across several open source communities with a $1
Million total prize.
"Sun
developed the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to
foster innovation on a global level and recognize the most
interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide,"
said Shrenik
Mehta, Senior
Director of Frontend Technologies and OpenSPARC program for
Sun Microsystems. "The winners ranged from professors and students
in the academia to developers working in the industry, all of whom
demonstrated extraordinary creativity and collaboration leading to
some outstanding innovations that will have a very real impact on the
OpenSPARC community."
The OpenSPARC Contest Award categories and winners include the following:
- Grand Prize - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
- Best University Level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course - Mark McDermott, Professor at the University of Texas, Austin
- Best New Bus Interface Creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC
community - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
- Best Demo of an Application running on an FPGA - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
- Best Adaptation of a Single-thread Application to a Multi-thread
CMT Environment - Andrey Brito, PhD student at the Systems Engineering
Group at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
- Best submission that makes a substantial contribution to the
OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of the other mentioned
categories - Kushal Datta, Graduate student at University of North
Carolina
Listen to the podcast from the winners
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Sun and Xilinx Unveil FPGA Board |
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At the International Conference for Field Programmable Logic and Applications
today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. unveiled a feature-rich,
high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform
provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible
OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation
applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial,
scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
"Our collaboration with industry leaders such as Xilinx will continue to drive
the momentum and expansion of the UltraSPARC ecosystem," said Mike Knudsen,
vice president, business development and marketing for Sun's Microelectronics
unit. "The microprocessor industry is steadily shifting towards CMT
architectures, and this new OpenSPARC FPGA evaluation platform puts us in a
prime position to enable faster time-to-market for our customers." |
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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
advancement in the future. |
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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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Eight 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
- Peking University, China
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
The OpenBSD 4.4 Release
Much more platform support. Machines using the UltraSPARC IV/T1/T2
and Fujitsu SPARC64-V/VI/VII are now supported.
Read the original article: http://openbsd.org/44.html ...
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HOTCHIPS20: Presentation on Rock Microprocessor
Presented at HOTCHIPS20: Rock: A third Generation 65nm, 16-Core, 32 Thread + 32 Scout-Threads CMT SPARC Processor ...
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FPGA Tutorial
7/3/08: Tutorial on using OpenSPARC T1 in an FPGA updated for release 1.6, “OpenSPARC T1 FPGA Implementation” ...
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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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Latest News
Sun Microsystems Announces Availability of First CMT Reference Design Kit
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced availability of the UltraSPARC T2 Reference
Design Kit (RDK), to accelerate the design, development, and testing of
UltraSPARC T2 processor-based embedded syst...
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The Register: Sun readies entry Sparc T2 kicker
The details are a bit sketchy, but server maker Sun Microsystems is
apparently getting ready to launch a rejiggered version of its Sparc T2
server platform that will implement an external network in...
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The Inquirer: Sun documents the T2 core
THERE ARE TWO bits of news from the OpenSPARC community
today, a new book and a new educational initiative. The book is free, the
educational initiative costs whatever college credits are where you ...
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Information Week: Sun Partnership To Promote OpenSparc In Europe
Sun Microsystemson Wednesday said Europractice, a European Union-backed nonprofit
technology group, has agreed to promote OpenSparc chip multithreading
technology as a reference design among 650 uni...
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European Universities Join OpenSPARC
Sun Microsystems,
Inc. and Europractice today announced a three-year
collaboration to promote OpenSPARC CMT (Chip Multithreading)
technology -- one of the only open sourced multi-core, mult...
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Latest Blogs
On The Record: Sun Intros OpenSPARC Internals Book
Today Sun introduced the OpenSPARC Internals book, a resource dedicated to supporting the ever-growing global OpenSPARC community with a complete guide to solving complex OpenSPARC programming tasks s...
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Sun Microsystems Collaborates with Europractice to Speed Adoption of OpenSPARC technology
Sun Microsystems and Europractice today announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARC(TM) technology--one of the only open sourced multi-core, multithreaded processor architectures--as a r...
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On The Record: Sun.com/ponytail is now live
Kudos to Steve Gillmor for suggesting the site, Sun.com/ponytail in his recent video. We've now activated the site.
Since Steve is so concerned about Sun's open source activities we've aimed t...
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On The Record: Join the Conversation - Educonnection.org and OSUM
The buzz at EDUCAUSE today was around Sun's launch of two new social networks: Educonnection.org and OSUM (Open Source University Meetup). Both are designed to build strong communities that empower pa...
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On The Record: Sun Kicks Off New Free Product Trial Pricing Promotion
Starting October 28, 2008, Sun is launching a new pricing
promotion on free product trials available through its Try and Buy
program. Under the promotion, all Sun products available via Try &
B...
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