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Taiwan Universities Join OpenSPARC |
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Written by Sun Microsystems
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 03:00 |
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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.
In an announcment held on July 7th, in Taipei, Sridhar Vajapey, Sun Microsystems, gave the opening and
talked about OpenSPARC program followed by Dr. Shyu, Dean of EECS of
Tsing Hua University, representing MOE's SoC program, and Dr. Lee,
Professor of Tsing Hua University and Director for MOE's ESW program,
followed by Joe Pai, Sun's GM for Taiwan. All were very thankful to
Sun for making such leading design and technology to Taiwan's
institution and were giving a very high expectation on how this
program would potentially benefit Taiwan's technology and industrial
advancement in the future.
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Sun Microsystems Partners with Top Universities in Taiwan to Advance OpenSPARC Technology |
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Written by Sun Microsystems
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Monday, 07 July 2008 03:00 |
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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. |
The Register: Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core |
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Written by Ashlee Vance (The Register)
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Monday, 23 June 2008 09:30 |
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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 processor which
will have 16 cores and an astonishing 16 threads per core, The Register has learned.
Today, Sun sells an eight-core "Niagara" chip that can handle eight
software threads per core. Customers can fit two of these UltraSPARC
T2+ chips, as they're officially called, into a server, providing up to
128 threads in a 1U system. Soon enough, Sun will also sell a
four-socket system code-named Botaka.
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EETimes: Engineers unveil new way to apply verification planning |
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Written by K.C. Krishnadas (EETimes)
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 23:30 |
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Two engineers at Oski Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.) have
demonstrated a formal verification planning process and associated
verification strategy that they say is a necessarythough often
ignoredstep in an ASIC or SoC functional formal verification flow.
In a paper presented at a recent conference here, the pair described a
way to apply the verification planning process and set of abstraction
techniques on the Sun OpenSparc DDR2 controller. The process and
verification strategy apply in particular to DDR2 controllers but can be generalized for other designs, they said.
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Economist: Open-source hardware Open sesame |
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Written by From The Economist print edition
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 03:00 |
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THE idea of open source software is familiar to many computer
users. Enthusiasts get together on the internet to create a new
program, and as well as giving it away, they also make available its
source codethe softwares underlying blueprint. This allows other
people to make additions and improvements, and those are made
available, in turn, to anyone who is interested. You do not have to be
a programmer to benefit from the open-source model: many people use the
Linux operating system or Firefox web-browser, for example, both of
which have been developed in this way. |
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ITJungle: Themis Partners with Sun to Make Sparc T2 Blade Server |
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Written by Timothy Prickett Morgan (ITJungle)
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 02:00 |
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Since the launching of the first generation of "Niagara"
Sparc T series of multicore processors nearly three years ago, Sun Microsystems
has been very keen on getting other server makers to use the chip or,
if they want to, to take the open source specs for the chip and create
their own variants. It is an admirable approach to sales and marketing,
using the same open source approach on hardware as has been successful
for a lot of infrastructure software. But it is debatable if the
approach has made Sun any money.
Sometimes,
you do things for the right reason and you get your payback by serving
the community. IT Jungle has always understood this, and provides a
broad set of newsletters precisely because they serve readers--not
because every newsletter makes money all the time. Sun's top executives
understand this principle, and in a way, that makes them New Sun, not
Old Sun. (Can you imagine Ed Zander open sourcing Solaris? Or the Sparc
T1 and T2 specs? I can't.) |
Themis Builds Blade Server Based on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 Processor |
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Written by Sun Microsystems Press Release
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Monday, 02 June 2008 03:00 |
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Themis Computer today announced that Themis will
make and sell blade servers based on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 CMT (chip multithreading) processor running the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).
Called the T2BC, the blade further extends the proliferation of Sun's
core technologies while helping to reach customers outside Sun's
traditional enterprise data center. According to the Q108 IDC Worldwide
Quarterly Server Tracker, SunÙs blade server business achieved
triple-digit factory revenue and shipment growth year-over-year; Themis
helps supplement that growth by addressing alternative form-factors.
The T2BC blade is the first of several products that Themis is
developing based on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processor.
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InternetNews: Sun Gains a New Licensee for Niagara 2 |
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Written by Andy Patrizio (InternetNews)
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 23:00 |
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Sun Microsystems today announced it has licensed its UltraSparc T2 CMT (chip multi-threading) processor, a.k.a. Niagara
2, to Themis Computer, a maker of blade systems for the embedded market.
On the surface, this seems like just another OEM licensing deal,
but one analyst thinks it could have enormous potential consequences in
the server consolidation drive that many IT shops are on.
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ITJungle: Sun Plans to Scale T2+ Servers to Four Sockets, Maybe More |
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Written by Timothy Prickett Morgan (ITJungle)
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 12:05 |
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Last week, Sun Microsystems
began shipments of its first two-socket variants of its "Niagara"
family of servers, marking a new phase in scalability for its multicore
Sparc server product line. While Sun still sells plenty of big iron,
much of it is too big and too expensive for the huge installed base of
customers using machinery based on UltraSparc-II and UltraSparc-III
processors, which date from the late 1990s and the early 2000s,
respectively. The answer, of course, is to make more scalable Niagara
servers using the Sparc T family of chips. |
eASIC Shatters FPGA Performance With 235MHz LEON3 Processor |
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Written by Press Release
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 09:00 |
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eASIC Corporation, a provider of zero-mask charge ASIC devices, today
announced the immediate availability of Gaisler Researchs
LEON3 SPARC Soft Processor. eASIC and Gaisler Research migrated the
LEON3 processor to eASICs Nextreme family of
zero mask-charge ASIC devices and achieved 235MHz performance,
shattering the performance achievable using high performance FPGAs.
Customers now have immediate access to the LEON3 processor and GRLIB IP
library for implementing single chip, SPARC V8 architecture compliant,
embedded systems using Nextreme devices. |
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