OpenSPARC Blogs

Octave Orgeron: Fujitsu Out-Sourcing to TSMC

Sun, 03 May 2009 03:25:00 +0100

Well according to reports (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1391c66e-35e8-11de-a997-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1), Fujitsu is divesting itself of semi-conductor fabrication and out-sourcing it to TSMC. This is not as...

Durgam Vahia: Announcing OpenSPARC V1.7

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:57:00 +0100

We are delighted to announce the availability of OpenSPARC (http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-t1/download.html) T1 version 1.7 (http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-t1/download.html). With this release, community can port...

Aditya: monitoring core/vcpu usage on Sun CMT machines Sun

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:11:00 +0100

Sun provides the /usr/local/bin/corestat CLI tool for their CMT (T1 and T2 Ultrasparc) machines which outputs in a loop with a line...

Durgam Vahia: OpenSPARC Center of Excellence - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:47:00 +0100

We are delighted to announce that University of Sao Paulo (http://www.usp.br/internacional/home.php? idioma=en), Brazil is now the first OpenSPARC Center of...

Paul Murphy: P570 vs T5220

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:15:00 +0100

As part of JesperFrimann’s challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running...

On The Record: Sun Intros OpenSPARC Internals Book

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:16:36 +0100

Today Sun introduced the OpenSPARC Internals book, a resource dedicated to supporting the ever-growing global OpenSPARC community with a complete...

Sun Microsystems Collaborates with Europractice to Speed Adoption of OpenSPARC technology

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:21:51 +0100

Sun Microsystems and Europractice today announced a three-year collaboration to promote OpenSPARC(TM) technology--one of the only open sourced multi-core, multithreaded...

On The Record: Sun.com/ponytail is now live

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:28:29 +0100

Kudos to Steve Gillmor for suggesting the site, Sun.com/ponytail (http://sun.com/ponytail) in his recent video. We've now activated the site. Since...

On The Record: Join the Conversation - Educonnection.org and OSUM

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:47:16 +0100

The buzz at EDUCAUSE (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/2008-1029/) today was around Sun's launch of two new social networks: Educonnection.org and OSUM (Open Source...

On The Record: Sun Kicks Off New Free Product Trial Pricing Promotion

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:34:47 +0100

Starting October 28, 2008, Sun is launching a new pricing promotion on free product trials available through its Try and Buy program....

On The Record: Sun's Shrinking Carbon Footprint

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:03:08 +0100

Today Sun is being recognized by the US EPA for surpassing an aggressive greenhouse gas emissions goal. As part of the...

On The Record: Sun Wins "Empower the Green Enterprise" Award

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:05:15 +0100

Last week at Oracle OpenWorld, Sun was recognized with Oracle's Empower the Green Enterprise award. Our very own Brian Day,...

On The Record: Sun Launches Student Central Site

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:43:58 +0100

Sun Student Central (http://www.sun.com/students/) is a great starting point to find out what Sun, as a company, has to offer students. Covering...

On The Record: Project Kenai Beta

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:00:46 +0100

As I'm sure you noticed, last week, Sun (http://www.projectkenai.com/)announced (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080910.1.xml) the expansion of ourxVM portfolio (http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvm/index.jsp) with Sun xVM...

Technology for Sun Partners: Visual CPU monitoring of CMT servers: perfbar 1.2 is final

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:21:00 +0100

As posted before: perfbar 1.2 is now final (http://blogs.sun.com/partnertech/entry/monitoring_cmt_servers_with_perfbar). Read the previous entry (http://blogs.sun.com/partnertech/entry/monitoring_cmt_servers_with_perfbar) to get perfbar 1.2. Key features: layout...

Ron Wilson: Sun and Xilinx team to make OpenSPARC a physical reality for researchers

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

Since the announcement of the OpenSPARC T1 (http://www.opensparc.net/opensparc-t1/index.html) CPU core, students, researchers, and interested parties elsewhere have had free access to the...

RogueWave: Homogenous vs. heterogenous multi-core: hardware strategies (Part 1)

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:29:27 +0100

All of the major computer hardware vendors have been moving to multi-core CPUs for several years now, creating the situation that...

Durgam Vahia: Another successful RAMP retreat

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:28:05 +0100

We had another successful RAMP (http://ramp.eecs.berkeley.edu/) retreat on August 19th and 20th. Over the last two years of our association,...

Barton George: OpenBSD runs on HUGE list of Sun SPARC systems -- T1, T2 support coming in 4.4

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:00:00 +0100

OpenBSD and Niagara Support Back in April I wrote (http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/openbsd_on_ultrasparc_t1_done) that Mark Kettenis had succeeded in porting OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/) to the...

Technology for Sun Partners: Monitoring CMT Servers with perfbar version 1.2 (beta)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:00 +0100

Perfbar is a very valuable visual tool which allows to determine bottle necks on SMP servers. A single full bar in...

Brian Herman: Good things come to those who wait - Sun on the rise

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:15:19 +0100

Excellent news: Gartner grades Sun as Overall Positive in a recent report - http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/sunmicrosystems/article3/article3.html

Jason Perlow: Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Mitigating the limitations of the architecture by throwing more cores at x86 isnt the long-term solution either. While I dont...

Jakob Engblom: Kunle Olukotun Interview: Heterogeneity, Domain-Specific Programming

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:20:00 +0100

The Radio Register has a nice interview (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/scc18_kunle_olukotun_ppl/)with Kunle Olukotun (http://ogun.stanford.edu/%7Ekunle/), the man most known for the Afara/Sun Niagara/UltraSparc T1-2-etc. design....

Jay Lyman: Sun full of open source and skepticism

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

Sun continues to take a performance pounding, and the rumors of replacements (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/07/09/sun-micro-could-ceo-schwartz-be-on-his-way-out/), layoffs and revamps are beyond swirling and...

Durgam Vahia: Deadline approaching for OpenSPARC contest

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:50:24 +0100

Wanted to highlight that deadline for the OpenSPARC contest (http://www.opensparc.net/community-innovation-awards-contest-rules.html) is fast approaching. Submissions must be turned in by...

Shanti Subramanyam: Cool Stack 1.3 is here

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:12:04 +0100

It's finally here. Before you download (http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack#Downloads) the release, please do read the documentation (http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack#Documentation). It's over a month late,...

Durgam Vahia: 10G Ethernet design open-sourced

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:53:08 +0100

If you have been following OpenSPARC (http://www.opensparc.net) release train, you probably noticed that Sun just open-sourced one of the critical...

Durgam Vahia: Economist on Open Source Hardware

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:35:29 +0100

Great to see the respected magazine The Economist (http://www.economist.com) running an article on open-source hardware in its...

Ashley Saulsbury: So long and thanks for all the fish ...

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:39:39 +0100

After 13 years at Sun, it's time to move on. Sadly, today is my final day, and my last blog entry...

Ashley Saulsbury: New hypervisor API specification released

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:35:38 +0100

The API specification for Logical Domains (and the SPARC hypervisor) is now available for download at opensparc.net (http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/specs/Hypervisor-api-current-draft.pdf). It's a...