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From: dwaynelee <dwayn...@sun.com>
Date: 2008/11/25
Subject: [OpenSPARC announce] OpenSPARC Community Threads - November 2008
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OpenSPARC Community
Threads
November, 2008
Its been a while since our last Community Threads, a lot had happened and below is a highlight of some of the major items.
New Book on OpenSPARC called, OpenSPARC Internals
http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-internals.html?cid=926837
This book is intended as a "getting started" companion to both OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2. Now that Sun has open-sourced OpenSPARC T1 and T2, what can they be used for? One thing is certain: the real-world uses to which OpenSPARC will be put will be infinitely more diverse and interesting than anything that could be suggested in this book! OpenSPARC Internals was largely written by the team of OpenSPARC designers, developers, and programmers to acquaint readers with OpenSPARC and to guide users as they develop their own OpenSPARC designs.
Buy a printed copy at lulu.com for $19.90
or register and download a free PDF copy
New Slidecasts - All About OpenSPARC
http://www.opensparc.net/all-about-opensparc.html?cid=926837
OpenSPARC Slidecasts are 12 modules of on-line training by designers, developers, and programmers who worked on the creation of the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 microprocessors. These are made available to guide users as they develop their own OpenSPARC designs and to assist professors as they teach the next generation of processor designers. The twelve chapters cover the different aspects of OpenSPARC and together are equivalent to a 2 day technical OpenSPARC workshop.
The slidecasts (presentation with a voiceover), the PDF files and the openoffice files are available. We are providing the star/openoffice files under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
European Universities Join OpenSPARC (our Europractice announcement)
http://www.opensparc.net/news/2008-10/european-universities-join-opensparc.html?cid=926837
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Europractice today announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARC CMT (Chip Multithreading) technology -- one of the only open sourced multi-core, multithreaded processor architectures--as a reference design among 650 universities and research institutions across 38 countries in the European region. Europractice is a European Union-backed non-profit microelectronics design stimulation project managed by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Winners
http://www.opensparc.net/community-innovation-awards-contest.html?cid=926837
The Winners of OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Contest are:
* Grand Prize - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"Bus interface support for AHBA bus interface, a PCX/CPX-to-AHB bridge for OpenSPARC within the GRLIB library"
* Best University Level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course -
Mark McDermott, Professor at the University of Texas, Austin
"A graduate level VLSI design course"
* Best New Bus Interface Creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC
community - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"Bus interface support for AHBA bus interface, a PCX/CPX-to-AHB bridge for OpenSPARC within the GRLIB library"
* Best Demo of an Application running on an FPGA - Martin Johansson,
Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"The T1 system could operate at 40 MHz in a virtex4 LX60 device, and achieved 20,000 Dhrystones/s (12 DMIPS)."
* Best Adaptation of a Single-thread Application to a Multi-thread
CMT Environment - Andrey Brito, PhD student at the Systems
Engineering Group at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
"Use of speculation to harness the power of multi-cores to parallelize stateful components."
* Best submission that makes a substantial contribution to the
OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of the other
mentioned categories - Kushal Datta, Graduate student at
University of North Carolina
"CMT Architecture Simulator for Performance, Energy and aRea Analysis (CASPER)"
Sun and Xilinx Unveil OpenSPARC FPGA Board
http://www.opensparc.net/fpga/sun-and-xilinx-unveil-fpga-board.html?cid=926837
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. unveiled a feature-rich, high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
Based on the power of an open-sourced 32-thread UltraSPARC T1 processor and combined with the high-performance Xilinx - 65nmVirtex-5 FPGA technology, the platform will provide a foundation for innovation across a range of disciplines including; computer architecture, logic design, compiler techniques and parallel programming. Based on its programmable architecture, the platform allows multiple design iterations providing faster time- to-market, greater flexibility and reduced complexity.
Buy or Apply: Professors can purchase an FPGA kit at university discount or see if they qualify for a kit donation through OpenSPARC University Program at http://www.opensparc.net/edu/?cid=926837 . Students and students groups can work through their sponsoring professors to apply.
Here is the scheduled for donation requests:
For Applications received by: Notification will be sent by:
November 30, 2008 (Q2FY08) December 30, 2008
February 28, 2009 (Q3FY09 March 30, 2009
May 30, 2009 (Q4FY09) June 30, 2009
Participate in the forums
Got a technical question? Go to http://www.opensparc.net/forum?cid=926837 and post it on the Forum.
The OpenSPARC Team
You can purchase the board or see if you qualify for a donate through our University Program.
November, 2008
Its been a while since our last Community Threads, a lot had happened and below is a highlight of some of the major items.
New Book on OpenSPARC called, OpenSPARC Internals
http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-internals.html?cid=926837
This book is intended as a "getting started" companion to both OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2. Now that Sun has open-sourced OpenSPARC T1 and T2, what can they be used for? One thing is certain: the real-world uses to which OpenSPARC will be put will be infinitely more diverse and interesting than anything that could be suggested in this book! OpenSPARC Internals was largely written by the team of OpenSPARC designers, developers, and programmers to acquaint readers with OpenSPARC and to guide users as they develop their own OpenSPARC designs.
Buy a printed copy at lulu.com for $19.90
or register and download a free PDF copy
New Slidecasts - All About OpenSPARC
http://www.opensparc.net/all-about-opensparc.html?cid=926837
OpenSPARC Slidecasts are 12 modules of on-line training by designers, developers, and programmers who worked on the creation of the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 microprocessors. These are made available to guide users as they develop their own OpenSPARC designs and to assist professors as they teach the next generation of processor designers. The twelve chapters cover the different aspects of OpenSPARC and together are equivalent to a 2 day technical OpenSPARC workshop.
The slidecasts (presentation with a voiceover), the PDF files and the openoffice files are available. We are providing the star/openoffice files under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
European Universities Join OpenSPARC (our Europractice announcement)
http://www.opensparc.net/news/2008-10/european-universities-join-opensparc.html?cid=926837
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Europractice today announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARC CMT (Chip Multithreading) technology -- one of the only open sourced multi-core, multithreaded processor architectures--as a reference design among 650 universities and research institutions across 38 countries in the European region. Europractice is a European Union-backed non-profit microelectronics design stimulation project managed by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Winners
http://www.opensparc.net/community-innovation-awards-contest.html?cid=926837
The Winners of OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Contest are:
* Grand Prize - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"Bus interface support for AHBA bus interface, a PCX/CPX-to-AHB bridge for OpenSPARC within the GRLIB library"
* Best University Level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course -
Mark McDermott, Professor at the University of Texas, Austin
"A graduate level VLSI design course"
* Best New Bus Interface Creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC
community - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"Bus interface support for AHBA bus interface, a PCX/CPX-to-AHB bridge for OpenSPARC within the GRLIB library"
* Best Demo of an Application running on an FPGA - Martin Johansson,
Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
"The T1 system could operate at 40 MHz in a virtex4 LX60 device, and achieved 20,000 Dhrystones/s (12 DMIPS)."
* Best Adaptation of a Single-thread Application to a Multi-thread
CMT Environment - Andrey Brito, PhD student at the Systems
Engineering Group at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
"Use of speculation to harness the power of multi-cores to parallelize stateful components."
* Best submission that makes a substantial contribution to the
OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of the other
mentioned categories - Kushal Datta, Graduate student at
University of North Carolina
"CMT Architecture Simulator for Performance, Energy and aRea Analysis (CASPER)"
Sun and Xilinx Unveil OpenSPARC FPGA Board
http://www.opensparc.net/fpga/sun-and-xilinx-unveil-fpga-board.html?cid=926837
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. unveiled a feature-rich, high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
Based on the power of an open-sourced 32-thread UltraSPARC T1 processor and combined with the high-performance Xilinx - 65nmVirtex-5 FPGA technology, the platform will provide a foundation for innovation across a range of disciplines including; computer architecture, logic design, compiler techniques and parallel programming. Based on its programmable architecture, the platform allows multiple design iterations providing faster time- to-market, greater flexibility and reduced complexity.
Buy or Apply: Professors can purchase an FPGA kit at university discount or see if they qualify for a kit donation through OpenSPARC University Program at http://www.opensparc.net/edu/?cid=926837 . Students and students groups can work through their sponsoring professors to apply.
Here is the scheduled for donation requests:
For Applications received by: Notification will be sent by:
November 30, 2008 (Q2FY08) December 30, 2008
February 28, 2009 (Q3FY09 March 30, 2009
May 30, 2009 (Q4FY09) June 30, 2009
Participate in the forums
Got a technical question? Go to http://www.opensparc.net/forum?cid=926837 and post it on the Forum.
The OpenSPARC Team
You can purchase the board or see if you qualify for a donate through our University Program.
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Mohamed Sanaulla
Sun CA, NITK Surathkal
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http://sanaulla.wordpress.com/
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