Our academic friends promote technologies from Sun in their teaching and/or research programs. The adoption of the Niagara OpenSPARC multicore architectures is proving popular, with concurrent computing teaching materials being shared by many universities worldwide.

» Peter Strazdins
» School of Computer Science
» Australian National University

At ANU, Peter is using the Niagara-2 machine as part of the new course on Multicore Computing: Principles and Practice.

The launch of the Niagara T2 was held on 16th October 2008.

» Dr. Bernhard Scholz
» School of Information Technologies
» University of Sydney

The launch of the Niagara T2 was held on 18th May 2009 as part of the University Day at Univ. of Sydney.Here isthe link to the press release. SIT goes green with Sun Microsystems.

» Prof. Jingling Xue
» School of Computer Science and Engineering
» University of New South Wales

» Xiaofang Zhou
» School of ITEE
» University of Queensland (UQ)

With UQ we are exploring work experience options for Chinese students enrolled in a Master of IT degree at the University of Queensland. Student work experience is in areas of mutual research interests.