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Sun Microsystems Recognizes Open Source Innovation with announcement of OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Winners
September 2008 by Marc Jacob
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the winners of the OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest designed to fuel innovation around chip technology. The contest was part of Sun’s Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open source communities with a $1 Million total prize.
Martin Johansson and Jiri Gaisler from Gaisler Research secured award recognition for the creation of a new bus Interface as well as demonstrating an application running on FPGA making a major contribution to the OpenSPARC community.
Andrey Brito, a PhD student at the Systems Engineering Group at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany was also recognized for the Best Adaptation of a Single-thread Application to a Multi-thread CMT Environment.
The OpenSPARC Contest Award categories and winners include the following:
Grand Prize - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
Best University Level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course - Mark
McDermott, Professor at the University of Texas, Austin
Best New Bus Interface Creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC community - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
Best Demo of an Application running on an FPGA - Martin Johansson, Jiri Gaisler of Gaisler Research
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.
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
