This is my first entry, and what better way to start, than with a great event. Last week here at Sao Paulo occurred a tree day workshop that had as subject openSPARC specification and FPGA implementation. The workshop happened from 24 through 26 March and was hosted by the Grupo de Sistemas Pervasivos e de Alto Desempenho (Pervasive systems and high performance group - PAD) of the Laboratory of Integrated Systems (LSI) of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP). This was the first of many events related to the openSPARC center of excellence program at USP.

The introduction had the special participation of Carlos Thomaz and Eduardo Lima from Sun and Prof. Sergio Kofuji, coordinator of the PAD group. In the first day morning, the presentations introduced the principles and concepts of the openSPARC community and Sun’s Throughput Initiative. It showed the history, aspects and design decisions of the architecture. In the afternoon they defined the T1 and T2 particular issues. The next day was very interesting, with nice presentations and a practical laboratory over the FPGA modeling theme. In the last day, we talked mainly about multicore specific aspects. You can see the full schedule here.

Prof. Sergio Kofuji gave me the opportunity to perform a presentation about the CMT and CoolThreads technology in the first day. You can download my slides here. The speakers were Sergio Kofuji, Jussara Kofuji, Fernando Muzzi, Edson Horta, German Santos, Stelvio Barbosan, Antonio Amorim, Eduardo Lima, Carlos Thomaz and Marcelo Arbore.

Read the original article: http://blogs.sun.com/Here_comes_the_sun/entry/opensparc_workshop

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Show/Hide comments

Name

Email

Website

Title

Comment

smaller | bigger

Subscribe via email (Registered users only)

I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage.

Write the displayed characters

Add Comment