Press Release: Sun Microsystems Launches OpenSPARC Project |
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Written by Sun Microsystems Press Release
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 16:00 |
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced the OpenSPARC project to open source its new breakthrough
UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor design point. With more than 3.4 million
registered licenses of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and 10,000
registered OpenSolaris community members, Sun is building on a long
history of sharing source code and creating communities and is the
first to create this new 64-bit, 32-thread rich SPARC/Solaris community
to spur innovation for massively-threaded systems and "system on a
chip" design. The program will be available in the first quarter of
2006.
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The Register: Sun opens Niagara chip design to world+dog |
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Written by Ashlee Vance (The Register)
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 14:28 |
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Sun Microsystems today complemented the release of two new servers
with some potentially significant changes to its processor architecture
licensing policy and the way in which Oracle will price its database
for the fresh gear.
We covered the Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 servers earlier today.
What's important about the boxes in the context of the licensing and
Oracle developments is their use of the eight-core UltraSPARC T1 - aka
Niagara - processor. This chip marks the most major development in
Sun's UltraSPARC line in a long, long time and gives it a part unlike
any other offered by Tier 1 competitors. |
EE Times: Sun to open-source Niagara processor Verilog code |
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Written by Jeffrey Schwartz (EE Times)
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 11:45 |
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In a bid to show it's no laggard when it comes to supporting open
source, Sun Microsystems is launching a new salvo -- the release of
specifications of its latest 8-core processor, the UltraSPARC T1.
Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy launched the OpenSparc Project,
where it will release into the public domain key specifications for the
T1, code-named Niagra, which Sun unveiled last month. McNealy disclosed
the open-source plan at a press and analyst event in New York, where
Sun launched its first servers, based on the new UltraSparc T1 platform. |
CNet: Sun makes Niagara an open-source chip |
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Written by Stephen Shankland (CNet)
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 00:55 |
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In a bid to increase the relevance of its processor line, Sun
Microsystems pledged Tuesday to make the underlying designs of its new
UltraSparc T1 an open-source project.
The Sparc chip specifications have been available for years to those who pay a fee to licensing organization Sparc International.
But now Sun plans to release not just the specifications, but also the
design itself, written in the Verilog hardware description language,
and an accompanying verification suite and simulation models.
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