Open Source Communities Announce Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards |
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Written by Sun Microsystems Press Releas
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 02:00 |
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Sun Microsystems, Inc., and the GlassFish, NetBeans,
OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities today
announced details on how developers and community members can
participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.
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EETimes: Intel, Sun, TI debut hot chips at ISSCC |
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Written by Rick Merritt
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Monday, 28 January 2008 08:04 |
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Intel Corp. will debut the world's biggest commercial
microprocessor as well as its lowest power X86 chip at the
International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next
week. But a server chip from Sun Microsystems and a cellphone processor from Texas Instruments debuting at ISSCC will outflank Intel on both fronts.
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ITJungle: Sun Open Sources Sparc T2 Chip, Too |
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Written by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 03:00 |
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Just after The Linux Beacon went on holiday in December, server and operating system maker Sun Microsystems
not only reminded the IT industry that it still makes its own
microprocessors for servers, but that it is taking the open sourcing of
its technologies deadly seriously. Having taken the design of the
"Niagara" Sparc T1 processor open source through the OpenSparc
project only three months after the Niagara chips appeared in products,
Sun has done it again with the "Niagara-2" Sparc T2 kickers.
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GCN: Logical Domains: A multicore approach to virtualization |
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Written by Joab Jackson
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Monday, 07 January 2008 03:00 |
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Could virtualization take advantage of the wave of
multicore processors now being offered? Sun Microsystems has developed
a technology, Logical Domains (LDoms), that can be used to dedicate
each core of a processor to running its own operating system.
When most people think of Suns virtualization,
they probably think of Sun Solaris Containers. With this form of
virtualization, a server runs a single instance of Solaris, which an
administrator could add additional virtual zones, each of which can run
additional operating system-based virtual environments.
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TheRegister: Sun's Rock chip waves goodbye to 2008 ship date |
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Written by Ashlee Vance (The Register)
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Friday, 14 December 2007 00:00 |
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You'll all be shocked to learn that Sun Microsystems appears set to delay the release of the Rock processor.
Word reached Vulture Central this week of troubles in
the land of Rock. Sun hoped to ship the 16-core SPARC dynamo by the end
of next year. Now, however, we're hearing that early versions of Rock
have struggled to perform during testing. So now, Sun expects to ship
the chip in the first half of 2009.
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InfoWorld: Open Source Hardware |
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Written by Zack Urlocker (InfoWorld)
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 04:40 |
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How do you disrupt a billion dollar hardware industry? Open source
it. That's just what Sun has been doing, rolling out their latest OpenSPARC T2 processor with an open source design available under the GPL.
You can download the design, specs, documentation and related tools for their T2 processor,
which has eight cores and a 64 thread processor. The T2 processor is
essentially a server on a chip with multi-core CPU as well as
networking, security and I/O built in.
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TechNewsWorld: Sun Opens T2 Processor to Spur Developer Interest |
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Written by Katherine Noyes (LinuxInsider)
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 08:58 |
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Sun's OpenSPARC initiative is following a precedent set by IBM with
its efforts to promote the Power Architecture through Power.org,
Charles King, a principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider.
"Power.org has been quite successful and has led to some really
interesting partnerships for IBM with companies like Freescale and
Samsung," King noted.
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) on Tuesday made good on its promise
to deliver its OpenSPARC T2 register transfer level (RTL) processor
design to the free and open source community using the GNU General
Public License (GPL).
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CNet: Sun open-sources second Niagara chip |
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Written by Stephen Shankland (CNet)
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 07:57 |
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Sun Microsystems on Tuesday followed through on a promise to release the designs of a second server processor as open-source software.
The design for Niagara 2, formally called the UltraSparc T2 and currently shipping in servers, now is governed by the General Public License (GPL)--though as with Niagara 1, Sun is using the earlier version 2 of the seminal license. |
TGDaily: Sun open-sources T2 processor |
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Written by Wolfgang Gruener
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:15 |
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The T2 processor, called OpenSparc T2 in its open-source
version, is provided as a register transfer level design to the
open-source community under the GPL 2.0 license and follows the
OpenSparc T1 (based on the UltraSparc T1), which was released in March
2006.
Open sourcing the UltraSparc T1 processor design
was such a new concept it created some angst and a fair amount of
debate before we pulled the trigger, said David Yen, Sun's executive
vice president of Sun Microelectronics, in a prepared statement. But
there was no debate associated with T2. We've seen the success of open
sourcing hardware, and the interest it has created in the developer,
university and customer communities. The number of downloads have been
impressive and confident we're expanding the market for Sun technology.
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eWeek: Sun Brings Niagara 2 Chip to Open Source |
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Written by Scott Ferguson (eWeek)
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:55 |
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Sun Microsystems is releasing the specifications of its new UltraSPARC T2 processor,
formally code named Niagara 2, to the open-source community Dec. 12, as
part of the company's ongoing effort to build more of a community
around its signature chip.
When Sun announced the release of the eight-core UltraSPARC T2 chip in August 2007, company executives said it would move to bring the specification to the
open-source community through Sun's OpenSPARC initiative.
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