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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
The Register: Here's the multi-core man coding robots, 3-D worlds and Wall Street
That's what Stanford President John Hennessy said would be required
if then associate professor Kunle Olukotun wanted to secure tenure. So,
Olukotun set after that goal with some ground-breaking wor...
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CNet.com: Sun's new SPARC64: Nice product, little excitement
Earlier this week, Sun launched a
family of new servers based on the SPARC64 VII processor. In contrast
to Sun's "CMT" (Chip Multithreading) UltraSPARC T1 and T2 designs that
deliver aggr...
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iTWire.com: Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?
Here’s why: virtualisation is a hot item for managers of large
technology infrastructures. Case studies have proven its potential to
greatly reduce the number of server computers in an organisation
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The Register: Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core
Sun Microsystems looks poised to lead the "mainstream" multi-core
race for at least a couple more years. By late 2009, the server maker
should deliver a third major revision of its Niagara...
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EETimes: Engineers unveil new way to apply verification planning
Two engineers at Oski Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) have
demonstrated a formal verification planning process and associated
verification strategy that they say is a necessary—though often
ignor...
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Latest Blogs
Jay Lyman: Sun full of open source and skepticism
Sun continues to take a performance pounding, and the rumors of replacements, layoffs and revamps are beyond swirling and now perpetuating skepticism of the company. It strikes me as odd that Sun, whi...
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Durgam Vahia: Deadline approaching for OpenSPARC contest
Wanted to highlight that deadline for the OpenSPARC contest is fast approaching. Submissions must be turned in by June 30th to be eligible. ...
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Shanti Subramanyam: Cool Stack 1.3 is here
It's finally here. Before you download the release, please do read the documentation. It's over a month late, but hopefully the features will compensate for the delay.
Almost every single component ...
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Durgam Vahia: 10G Ethernet design open-sourced
If you have been following OpenSPARC release train, you probably noticed that Sun just open-sourced one of the critical blocks of the OpenSPARC T2 (aka Niagara2) processor - Network Interface Unit (NI...
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Durgam Vahia: Economist on Open Source Hardware
Great to see the respected magazine "The Economist" running an article on open-source hardware in its quarterly technology report - Open Sesame.
This is a clear indication that open-sour...
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