IBM Briefing Center, Austin, Texas. April 19, 2007

Power.org is committed to making Power Architecture technology the preferred open hardware platform for the electronics industry. The Power Architecture Software Summit will focus on identifying solutions to challenges associated with software development on Power Architecture.

Join fellow software developers and development managers refine Power.org’s software strategy in the first Power Architecture Software Summit. The free Summit will include internet conference capabilities for those unable to attend but interested in participating.

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The agenda

Time (Central Time) Topic
8:00 - 8:15 Welcome
8:15 - 8:45 Power.org Overview
8:45 - 10:45 PS3 as developer workstation:
  • Early experiences
  • MythTV on PS3 with TV tuner demo
  • HPC Consortium and Terra Soft Hack-a-Thon
10:45 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:00PM Power based development workstation discussion
12:00PM - 12:30PM Business cases around Power Architecture application
12:30PM - 1:30PM LUNCH
1:30PM - 2:45PM Software development (Part 1):
  • Simulators
  • gcc and tool chain presentation
2:45PM - 3:00PM BREAK
3:00PM - 4:30PM Software development (Part 2):
  • Transition from 32 bit to 64 bit
  • IDEs and Eclipse
  • Eclipse-based multicore software development tools
4:30PM - 5:00PM Software strategy and wrap-up:
  • Power.org website features
  • Suggestions for next education session