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Sun Microsystems and Europractice have teamed for a three-year project
aimed at widening the use of the OpenSPARC CMT open sourced multi-core,
multithreaded processor architecture, particularly in European
universities.
The organization said it selected Sun's OpenSPARC technology
because of its advanced architecture and freely available commercial
designs.
The project is intended to strengthen the open source community and
further next-generation multi-core, multithreading development, both on
the OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 processors.
Sun Microsystems and Europractice have teamed for a three-year project
aimed at widening the use of the OpenSPARC CMT open sourced multi-core,
multithreaded processor architecture, particularly in European
universities.
The organization said it selected Sun's OpenSPARC technology
because of its advanced architecture and freely available commercial
designs.
The project is intended to strengthen the open source community and
further next-generation multi-core, multithreading development, both on
the OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 processors.
As part of the initiative, some 650 European Universities and
research institutions will get the opportunity to develop processor
designs based on Sun's OpenSPARC technology.
"We believe access to this technology will help boost Europes
capabilities in teaching and research in the microprocessor field,"
said Dr. John McLean, Head of Europractice Software Service.
Europractice is a European Union-backed non-profit
microelectronics design stimulation project managed by the STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
As part of the effort, Sun and Europractice will hold the first in a
series of OpenSPARC technology workshops over the next few months.
"Our collaboration with Europractice will help open doors for
tens of thousands of advanced engineering students and next-generation
technology leaders across Europe," said Lin Lee, vice president of
global communities, Sun Microsystems.
The European initiative builds on similar efforts by Sun and universities in China, Taiwan, New Zealand and the United States.
"As one of Europe's leading universities in the microelectronic
design space, we view this development as important to our drive to
integrate leading technology to create next- generation hardware
solutions for the business environment," said Professor Per Stenstrom,
Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, in a statement.
Sun first introduced the UltraSPARC T1 processor, an eight-core,
32-thread, general purpose processors in 2005. Two years later, it
introduced the second generation of CMT processors, the UltraSPARC T2,
which doubled the thread count of the UltraSPARC T1, to 64.
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