Abstract: Presentation made at the Multicore Expo 2007, on March 27-29, 2007, Santa Clara, CA.

No one in the computer industry would even think about giving its latest hardware design away. Yet, that is what Sun Microsystems did a year ago when it released to the public its latest multicore, multi-threaded technology - the UltraSPARC T1 through the OpenSPARC initiative. Not only did Sun release the RTL for this advanced processor, but also the software tools, CoolTools, supporting this OpenSPARC initiative. This presentation looks at where the OpenSPARC initiative is after one year - its successes, the growth of the OpenSPARC community, and contemplates where OpenSPARC and open source hardware is headed in the future.

Bio:  Fadi Azhari brings a unique and broad knowledge of the entire IT food chain, from consumer devices at the edge of the network to large corporate server computing in the data center. Fadi is Director of marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc., driving the game-changing open source initiative for Sun's OpenSPARC Chip Multithreading technology. Previous to his current role. Fadi was Director of outbound product marketing for Sun's SPARC server line. In his career, he also held various marketing positions. As Director of marketing at Philips Electronics Handheld Computing Group, he was responsible for introducing one of the best selling MIPS based microprocessor for Smartphone products; Fadi was also business development manager at Motorola for the PowerPC architecture. Fadi holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Fadi is an award recipient of Sun's Chairman leadership award for innovation (2006) and the industry Mobile Maven award for innovation for the handheld computing industry (1997).
 

Presentation: “Open Source Hardware - Myth Becomes Reality“

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