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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
- Stanford University
- 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
- Tsinghua University, China
- 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.
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