Open SPARC Debuts in Euro Universities
This week Sun and Europractice announced that we have teamed up for a three-year project aimed at widening the use of the OpenSPARC CMT open sourced multi-core, multithreaded processor architecture, particularly in European universities.
Europractice is a non-profit organization that distributes and supports electronic design automation software at 650 universities across 38 countries in Europe and is an organization that promotes scientific and engineering research and instruction in the United Kingdom.
As part of the three-year agreement between Sun and Europractice, the non-profit will distribute the Verilog files that describe the OpenSparc implementation of the "Niagara" Sparc T1 and T2 processors to the universities hooked into Europractice and will also help those schools establish OpenSparc as a reference platform upon which students can do research.
The project is intended to strengthen the open source community and further next-generation multi-core, multithreading development, both on the OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 processors.
"We believe access to this technology will help boost Europe's capabilities in teaching and research in the microprocessor field," said Dr. John McLean, Head of Europractice Software Service.
"Our collaboration with Europractice will help open doors for tens of thousands of advanced engineering students and next-generation technology leaders across Europe," said Lin Lee, vice president of global communities, Sun Microsystems.
The European initiative builds on similar efforts by Sun and universities in China, Taiwan, New Zealand and the United States.
For more information on OpenSPARC and growing momentum, click here
Europractice is a non-profit organization that distributes and supports electronic design automation software at 650 universities across 38 countries in Europe and is an organization that promotes scientific and engineering research and instruction in the United Kingdom.
As part of the three-year agreement between Sun and Europractice, the non-profit will distribute the Verilog files that describe the OpenSparc implementation of the "Niagara" Sparc T1 and T2 processors to the universities hooked into Europractice and will also help those schools establish OpenSparc as a reference platform upon which students can do research.
The project is intended to strengthen the open source community and further next-generation multi-core, multithreading development, both on the OpenSPARC T1 and OpenSPARC T2 processors.
"We believe access to this technology will help boost Europe's capabilities in teaching and research in the microprocessor field," said Dr. John McLean, Head of Europractice Software Service.
"Our collaboration with Europractice will help open doors for tens of thousands of advanced engineering students and next-generation technology leaders across Europe," said Lin Lee, vice president of global communities, Sun Microsystems.
The European initiative builds on similar efforts by Sun and universities in China, Taiwan, New Zealand and the United States.
For more information on OpenSPARC and growing momentum, click here
