OpenSPARC News

The Inquirer: Sun documents the T2 core

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:09:00 +0100

THERE ARE TWO bits of news from the OpenSPARC community today, a new book and a new educational initiative. The book...

Information Week: Sun Partnership To Promote OpenSparc In Europe

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:09:00 +0100

Sun Microsystemson Wednesday said Europractice, a European Union-backed nonprofit technology group, has agreed to promote OpenSparc chip multithreading technology as a reference...

European Universities Join OpenSPARC

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Europractice today announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARC CMT (Chip Multithreading) technology...

The Register: Sun injects Euro univerities with OpenSparc

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:20:00 +0100

The processor and operating system technologies that made Sun Microsystems one of the first big Silicon Valley startups got their start three...

EE Times: Europractice, Sun team for multicore design support

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:05:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems and Europractice have teamed for a three-year project aimed at widening the use of the OpenSPARC CMT open sourced...

The Register: Sun freshens Solaris 10 for new iron

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems came in just under the wire with its Solaris 10 10/08 update, squeezing it out on the last day...

vnunet: Sun expands server test drive programme

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:19:00 +0100

Sun is expanding a programme that allows businesses to test drive its servers. The company said that it would be kicking off...

The Register: Sun, Fujitsu launches entry quad-core Sparc box

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Fujitsu and server partner Sun Microsystems will today roll out an entry server based on the quad-core Sparc64 VII processor created...

The Register: Ubuntu goes more mobile with 8.10 release

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:33:00 +0100

The gradual and metered improvement with the Ubuntu variant of Linux created and supported by commercial Linux distributor Canonical takes another step...

The Register: Sun unsheathes shiny new blades

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:16:00 +0100

If a broad server product line guaranteed sales, then the server business of Sun Microsystems would be as large as that...

Wall Street Journal: Sun Promises Jump in Speed in New Servers

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems (http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn symbol=JAVA) Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. are expected to unveil Monday a new line of server systems that exploit a...

ComputerWorld: Sun doubles processing power of UltraSparc T2 Plus servers

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems Inc. (http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search searchTerms=Sun+Microsystems+Inc.) today boosted the processing capabilities of its most popular Unix server line with the aim of attracting...

The Inquirer: Sun and Fujitsu make huge leap in server performance

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100

SUN AND FUJITSU will today show off a new, purportedly energy efficient, line of server systems based on a multi core...

TMWorld.com: Power-aware test hot at ITC, as is analog test

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Power-aware test will be the focus of a panel discussion and two technical paper sessions and is a key topic at...

The Register: Sun puts Xeon, Sparc T2+ chips in Netra rack servers

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:46:00 +0100

Server maker Sun Microsystems is to take the wraps off three new servers, aimed at telecommunications companies and other service providers and...

Sun Microsystems and GigaSpaces Break 1.3 Million-Messages-Per-Second Benchmark on Sun Server

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and GigiSpaces today announced new benchmark performance results that address the scalability needs of capital market customers. In rigorous performance...

The Register: Sun faces up to the 64 thread question with T2+

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:08:00 +0100

Analysis You wouldn't know it by the revenue and profit figures, but Sun Microsystems is managing a fair amount of churn in...

FPGA Journal: Sun Shines on Xilinx

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Today's high-performance, multi-core processing systems are complicated beasts - from both a hardware and a software perspective. Developing the architectures, protocols,...

The Inquirer: Tweak a Niagara on your desk

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:00:00 +0100

T1 on FPGA SUN AND XILINX just announced a really interesting twist on the the whole idea of an open CPU...

EE Times: Design News Sun, Xilinx launch 64-bit OpenSparc development platform

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:39:00 +0100

Computer company Sun Microsystems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) and FPGA company Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have announced the availability of an...

Sun and Xilinx Ignite CMT Development Market with Introduction of OpenSPARC Evaluation Platform

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Industry leaders join forces to combine industry's first 64-bit open-source multi-core, multi-threaded microprocessor with industry-leading 65nm Virtex-5 high-performance FPGA Heidelberg, Germany September 8, 2008...

ComputerWorld: Otago, Sun team up

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:00:00 +0100

The University of Otago has become the first university outside of the United States to be selected as a Sun Microsystems OpenSPARC...

Scoop: Otago A Sun Microsystems Centre of Excellence

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:38:01 +0100

Otago becomes Sun Microsystems Centre of Excellence The University of Otago has achieved a coup by becoming the first university outside of the United...

New Zealand Herald: Otago University forges research partnership with Sun

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +0100

New Zealand's fledgling supercomputing data processing industry could receive a boost through a research partnership between Sun Microsystems and Otago...

Haskell Weekly News: July 23, 2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Welcome to issue 78 of HWN, a newsletter covering developments in the Haskell (http://haskell.org/) community. Issue 78: In Which...

The Register: Here's the multi-core man coding robots, 3-D worlds and Wall Street

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:38:20 +0100

That's what Stanford President John Hennessy said would be required if then associate professor Kunle Olukotun wanted to secure tenure. So, Olukotun...

CNet.com: Sun's new SPARC64: Nice product, little excitement

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Earlier this week, Sun launched a family of new servers based on the SPARC64 VII processor. In contrast to Sun's CMT...

iTWire.com: Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Heres why: virtualisation is a hot item for managers of large technology infrastructures. Case studies have proven its potential to greatly reduce...

Taiwan Universities Join OpenSPARC

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced today the partnership with National...

Sun Microsystems Partners with Top Universities in Taiwan to Advance OpenSPARC Technology

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0100

Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced today the partnership with...