Durgam Vahia: OpenSPARC in China

Written by Durgam Vahia

Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:57

Hot off the press

"Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Ministry of Education (MOE) for the People's Republic of China today announced a three-year collaboration agreement designed to meet China's demand for cultivating integrated circuit (IC) engineering talent and industry development. The agreement is based on Sun's OpenSPARC(TM) program."

More details here and, of course, here.

In July'07, few of us had conducted OpenSPARC tutorial at the Computer Teachers' Conference in Huangshan, China (Beautiful photo gallery here). The conference was sponsored by "CMP" -- the China Machine Press, a technical publishing house.

We gave a 2-hour overview presentation to about 90 or so professors and followed up by giving a day long tutorial with details on Chip Multithreading (CMT) and OpenSPARC to about 30 or so professors. I was really impressed with some of the questions and their interest in revamping curriculum to include state-of-the-art technology from around the world.

Overall, great to see China MOE collaborating with Sun - A win both for OpenSPARC and the hardware design community in China.