OpenSPARC Centers of Excellence

A Center of Excellence is a formalized, documented relationship between Global Education and Research, the educational institution, and the third party. All parties involved in the Center of Excellence will bring to the partnership a special expertise of strategic importance to Sun. Typically, the relationship will span anywhere from 1 to 3 years in length, and will vary according to the nature of the goals and objectives of the Center and the educational institution.

Read more about Sun's Center of Excellence Program.

Current OpenSPARC Centers of Excellence

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  UCSC COE plaque presentation (Click to Enlarge)

  On April 12th, Sunil Joshi , Senior Vice President at Sun Microsystems (right) presents the Sun Center of Excellence plaque to Assistant Professor Jose Renau of UC Santa Cruz's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering . This Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty who are working with the OpenSPARC community and promoting OpenSPARC in academia and research.

  Read UCSC's Press Release, Sun Microsystems creates OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC.

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  University of Illinois COE plaque presentation, pictured are Illinois Vice Chancellor for Research Charles Zukoski, Sun representative David Crockett, CS Professor Josep Torrellas, ECE alumnus and Sun Executive Vice President for Microelectronics David Yen, and CS Interim Department Head Michael Heath. (Click to Enlarge)
  
  The University of Illinois has been named an OpenSPARC Center of Excellence by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Center represents a collaboration between the University of Illinois Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Sun in support of OpenSPARC, a global community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor. Illinois researchers will be advancing the OpenSPARC movement through research in two primary areas: support for reliable processor hardware, and compilation for large numbers of threads.
  

  Read more in Illinois' Department of Computer Science Article and in their Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Headline News.
  
  

• University of Texas at Austin

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  
  
  
  

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

  
  
  
  

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• University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  University of Otago COE plaque presentation (Click to Enlarge)

  Kevin Mayo, BDM and Chief Technologist, Education and Research, Sun Microsystems ANZ (left) and Lindsay Brown, Chancellor of the University of Otago (right)

  
  
  
  
  
• Peking University, China

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  We are delighted to announce that University of Sao Paulo, Brazil is now the first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence in the Latin America. USP is one of the largest institutions of higher education in Brazil and boasts 75,000 enrolled students.

  The OpenSPARC team has been working closely with the faculty and students of Pervasive Computing and High Performance Group (PAD) and the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering  at the USP which has been actively involved in research in the areas of reconfigurable computing, transactional cache models, and functional verification.

  It's great to see multi-core related research and course-work being developed using the OpenSPARC technology in one of the top schools in Latin America.