Meetings:2008-07

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday July 8, 2008

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

New chip advances from Sun

Speakers

Russell Crook

Description

In the last few years, Sun has been developing multi-threaded chips with more than just two threads, primarily to deal with the mismatch between fast CPUs and slow memory. The newest chips are open-sourced, and we can now talk about them.

• OpenSPARC.net
• Sun OpenSPARC
• UltraSPARC T1 - the product that has been "open sourced"
• Rock Processor - the alternate successor to UltraSPARC T1/T2

Location

   Room GB248, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto

Schedule

6:00 PM - There will be an informal get together of Linux fans at the Pho Hung restaurant 350 Spadina Ave. to talk about Linux related topics over Vietnamese style food.

7:30 PM - Meeting and presentation.

Late evening - After the presentation a large group of Linux fans will move to a nearby pub for further informal socializing.