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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 3. October 2006
Sun Creates OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board
Sun Microsystems hasset up an independent OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board that is chartered with setting the direction for OpenSPARC, a community that fosters the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on Sun's UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor. The community now includes a new GNU/Linux distribution, Gentoo Linux, which is supporting UltraSPARC T1 in the latest release of its popular open source Operating System (OS), and the first published derivative of the chip design from Simply RISC.
The latest announcements come as the OpenSPARC initiative is showing momentum. Since its introduction last March, there have been over 3,500 OpenSPARC T1 hardware downloads and over 2,600 OpenSPARC T1 software downloads, the same multi-core, multi-threading, 64-bit processor design driving the highly successful Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.
Now providing oversight for the expanding OpenSPARC community is the new OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board (CAB). CAB will be comprised of five charter members, two from Sun and three outside the company. Nathan Brookwood, analyst with Insight64; Assistant Professor Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz; and Robert Ober, Fellow CTO office, LSI Logic are joined by David Weaver, senior staff engineer, and Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, from Sun. The board will solicit input from the OpenSPARC community to shape the evolution of the initiative.
"By open sourcing its core technologies—Solaris and SPARC—Sun has moved from talking the talk of open systems to walking the walk," said Insight 64's Nathan Brookwood.
The latest announcements come as the OpenSPARC initiative is showing momentum. Since its introduction last March, there have been over 3,500 OpenSPARC T1 hardware downloads and over 2,600 OpenSPARC T1 software downloads, the same multi-core, multi-threading, 64-bit processor design driving the highly successful Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.
Now providing oversight for the expanding OpenSPARC community is the new OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board (CAB). CAB will be comprised of five charter members, two from Sun and three outside the company. Nathan Brookwood, analyst with Insight64; Assistant Professor Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz; and Robert Ober, Fellow CTO office, LSI Logic are joined by David Weaver, senior staff engineer, and Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, from Sun. The board will solicit input from the OpenSPARC community to shape the evolution of the initiative.
"By open sourcing its core technologies—Solaris and SPARC—Sun has moved from talking the talk of open systems to walking the walk," said Insight 64's Nathan Brookwood.
