A Center of Excellence is a formalized, documented relationship between Global Education and Research, the educational institution, and the third party. All parties involved in the Center of Excellence will bring to the partnership a special expertise of strategic importance to Sun. Typically, the relationship will span anywhere from 1 to 3 years in length, and will vary according to the nature of the goals and objectives of the Center and the educational institution.

Read more about Sun's Center of Excellence Program.

Current OpenSPARC Centers of Excellence

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  UCSC COE plaque presentation (Click to Enlarge)

  On April 12th, Sunil Joshi , Senior Vice President at Sun Microsystems (right) presents the Sun Center of Excellence plaque to Assistant Professor Jose Renau of UC Santa Cruz's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering . This Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty who are working with the OpenSPARC community and promoting OpenSPARC in academia and research.

  Read UCSC's Press Release, Sun Microsystems creates OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at UCSC.

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  University of Illinois COE plaque presentation, pictured are Illinois Vice Chancellor for Research Charles Zukoski, Sun representative David Crockett, CS Professor Josep Torrellas, ECE alumnus and Sun Executive Vice President for Microelectronics David Yen, and CS Interim Department Head Michael Heath. (Click to Enlarge)
  
  The University of Illinois has been named an OpenSPARC Center of Excellence by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Center represents a collaboration between the University of Illinois Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Sun in support of OpenSPARC, a global community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor. Illinois researchers will be advancing the OpenSPARC movement through research in two primary areas: support for reliable processor hardware, and compilation for large numbers of threads.
  

  Read more in Illinois' Department of Computer Science Article and in their Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Headline News.
  
  

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• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  
  
  
  

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• University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• RV-VLSI DESIGN CENTER – The VLSI Finishing School

  RV-VLSI Finishing School is a Sun Center of excellence conducting advanced VLSI programs using OPENSPARC for research activity. Our vision is to significantly reduce the time taken for an engineer to be productive to the semiconductor industry. The RV Group of Educational Institutions founded in 1940 oversees RV-VLSI Design Center. Since inception this group has graduated tens of thousands of students and its alumni network is spread all over the globe contributing to the society in all walks of life.
  
  Location: Bangalore, India
  Contact: Vijay Rao
  Telephone: +91-80-40788574
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  http://www.rv-vlsi.com/