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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.
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 Suns 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. As you can
see, this was a great encounter that gave outstanding information about the
technologies that is leading the next generation of hardware multicores. EPUSP have
a great role in history of brazilian computers hardware development, with the
proud of having the first brazilian computer project made entirely inside a
university, called Patinho Feio, in 1972. SUN is a company that originally
started in the
Stanford
University. There is no
doubt that these two giants in hardware development working together can only result
in amazing projects.
Read the original article: http://blogs.sun.com/Here_comes_the_sun/entry/opensparc_workshop
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