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Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced
today the partnership with National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, and
National Chiao Tung University to promote OpenSPARC technology development. Sun is the
only major processor vendor to offer its designs free to the open source community, which is
part of its broader commitment to fostering new users and developers and revenue
opportunities through open source.
Bleeding-Edge Curriculum to Benefit Thousands of Elite IC Design and Computer Science Students
Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced today the partnership with National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, and
National Chiao Tung University to promote OpenSPARC technology development. Sun is the
only major processor vendor to offer its designs free to the open source community, which is
part of its broader commitment to fostering new users and developers and revenue
opportunities through open source.
The partnership between Sun Microsystems and National Taiwan University, National
Tsing Hua University, and National Chiao Tung University is formed under the consensus that
UltraSPARC T2 CPU design open sourced under OpenSPARC is one of the fastest
microprocessors in the world, and Sun Microsystems is the only major processor vendor that
provides the complete design information to open source code communities for free. This
partnership will allow the universities to teach courses relevant with OpenSPARC technology
and lecture on the latest processor innovations, which includes Chip Multi-threading (CMT)
and software coding that fully leverage the advantage of CMT. The universities are also
encouraged to develop their own education materials and conduct research and experimental
projects. In addition, Sun Microsystems also aims at building a model of industry-academic
cooperation to help turn the academic research results into industrial products to indirectly
promote the IC industry development in Taiwan. Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems will also
engage in IC-related education and R&D programs in campuses. Mr. Jenq-Kuen Lee,
Director of MOE Embedded Software Consortium, said, With the launch of multiple projects,
this partnership is expected to benefit more than 3,000 elite Taiwanese students and help turn
them into technology experts with global competitiveness in three years.
It is our pleasure to see that the three top universities in Taiwan actively adopted this
global OpenSPARC technology, said Sridhar Vajapey, Vice President of Sun Microsystems
Technology, Validation and Test Department. It is also our honor to dedicate the leading
SPARC CMT technology to the academia in Taiwan, making it part of the curriculum in the
campuses. This partnership will help build the momentum for the SPARC CMT to grow at a
faster speed.
The purpose of ESW Consortium is to enhance the teaching, research, and development
of embedded software in Taiwan, said Jenq-Kuen Lee, Director of MOE Embedded Software
Consortium and also Professor of National Tsing Hua University. It is expected that the
partnership between Sun Microsystems and NTU, NTHU, and NCTU could connect the local
academia with world-class technology and be further expanded to other universities. ESW
Consortium also encourages local colleges and universities to actively participate in the
OpenSPARC program to improve the teaching and research quality of consortium members.
Sun Microsystems has been actively promoting the open computer system. It went
even further in 2006 to provide the open source code of OpenSPARC technology. These
contributions have become the supportive force of many academic studies, said Professor
Tei-Wei Kuo of National Taiwan University. Sun Microsystems has provided equipment and
research funding to National Taiwan University so that both the faculty and students here can
learn the multi-core platform with other leading universities around the world and improve our
parallel computing courses and OpenSPARC-related studies. We are pleased to see Sun
Microsystems brings the partnership with Taiwan academia to another level. We hope that
more talents could be developed through this program to enhance the competitiveness of
Taiwan.
Dr. Jenq-Kuen Lee of National Tsing Hua University pointed out that, Multi-core
embedded system architecture can provide a system platform with high efficiency and low
power consumption, therefore, it has become the mainstream of embedded system
development. Based on a multi-core platform, OpenSPARC program allows more developers
to involve in embedded system development via the means of open source code and
significantly lowers the minimum cost of hardware design. We would like to extend our
appreciation to Sun Microsystems for providing the newest innovative T5120 server and FPGA
board to local universities. It will benefit a lot of local students and contribute significantly to the talent pool and technology promotion of multi-core embedded software development.
Sun Microsystems releases the detail information of CPUs SPARC architecture so that
NCTU can have a more thorough understanding of the detail planning of commercial system
core and acquire experience of joint developing hardware and software. On the other hand,
NCTU can train a group of highly professional experts who are familiar with SPARC
architecture, which could benefit Sun Microsystems in terms of the promotion of its
architecture, equipment, and services. NCTU is pleased to maintain the long-term, win-win
partnership with Sun Microsystems that can help enhance the capability of our students in the
real world. said Professor Wuu Yung of National Chiao Tung University.
About Embedded Software Consortium (ESW) of the Ministry of Education
ESW Consortium is a program under the pilot project of Proactive SoC Education of Ministry
of Education. The mission of ESW Consortium is to enhance the education, research, and
development of embedded software and system design technology in Taiwan. ESW
Consortium looks forward to develop a rich talent pool for embedded software technology with
the joint-research and cooperation between the industry and the academia. It also expects to
develop a powerful embedded software market according to the electronic and digital product
development trend, and face the challenges of future embedded applications with a more
proactive software development strategy.
Read the PDF of the above announcement in Chinese and English.
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