IBM Takes Next Step in Opening Power Architecture to Research and Education Community16 December 2005
At a Power.org event in Palo Alto, California
today, IBM announced plans to make the specifications of IBM's PowerPC 405
core freely available to researchers and academia.
IBM plans to coordinate the contribution of the 405 core through Power.org,
which was formed one year ago to enable and promote Power Architecture
technology as the preferred collaborative hardware development platform for
the electronics industry.
The move is in response to requests by leading educators in computer
science and participants in collaborative multi-core processing research
projects, such as the Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors (RAMP).
RAMP is led by the University of California Berkeley, Stanford University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), University of Texas -Austin and the University of Washington.
RAMP researchers will now be able to map this core into their FPGA-based
systems (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), for new chip architecture
experiments.
"Access to this Power Architecture technology and the large, diverse Power
Architecture community will help enable our vision," said Professor David
A. Patterson, University of California Berkeley. "RAMP is a broad
collaboration to deliver an extremely flexible, low-cost platform for
experimenting with massively parallel systems on a chip."
"The contribution of the IBM PowerPC 405 core will allow researchers and
educators to better explore new computing architectures for massively
parallel systems and accelerators, and assist software developers in
experimenting with new programming models on these systems," said Nigel
Beck, chairman, Power.org. "This family of cores is at the heart of
networking and communications devices ranging from gaming consoles to the
BlueGene/L supercomputer."
About IBM
IBM develops, manufactures and markets state-of-the-art semiconductor and
interconnect technologies, products and services including Power
Architecture microprocessors. IBM semiconductors are a major contributor to
the company's position as the world's largest information technology
company. Its chip products and solutions power IBM eServer and TotalStorage
systems as well as many of the world's best-known electronics brands. IBM
semiconductor innovations include dual-core microprocessors, copper wiring,
silicon-on-insulator and silicon germanium transistors, strained silicon,
and eFUSE, a technology that enables computer chips to automatically
respond to changing conditions. The White House recently awarded IBM the
National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest technical honor, for 40
years of innovation in semiconductors.
More information is available at: http://www.ibm.com/chips
About Power.org
Power.org is an open standards industry group dedicated to accelerating
collaborative innovation on the Power microprocessor technology. Power
Architecture microprocessors are the heartbeat of products ranging from
video gaming systems and telematics to supercomputers. For more
information, visit www.power.org. Formed just one year ago, its members
include: IBM, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor
Manufacturing, Jabil Circuit, Novell, P.A. Semi, Red Hat, Synopsys, and
Thales.
Contact:
Glen Brandow
brandow@us.ibm.com
914-766-4615
SOURCE: IBM
Source: marketwire
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