The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) launched a new website for the SystemC community. Featuring fresh technical content, a range of free downloads, links to the activities of worldwide SystemC user groups, and user-friendly navigation, the new site furthers the organization's goal of making the worldwide SystemC community more vibrant, connected, and well informed. Visit the new site at: www.systemc.org.
OSCI membership has risen 30% in the past year, and user groups in North America, Europe, Asia/Japan, South America, and India are thriving according to the group's recent survey, SystemC Users Group Survey Data Trends Report, April 2007, available on the website.
New and improved features of the site are designed to enhance user experience as well as to strengthen the ties and further open the lines of communication between all members of the SystemC ecosystem. These include:
SystemC Community (open to the public):
・Link to the free download of IEEE 1666-2005 Language Reference Manual
・Downloads of open source OSCI standards and publicly available drafts
・User Group Network
・OSCI and SystemC community news
・Event listings
・Newsletter (opt-in)
・Free downloads of papers and articles
・Discussion forums
Organizational (open to members):
・Access to technical working group drafts, documents and minutes
・Posting of SystemC related press release and media coverage
Participation in the technical working groups is the primary way that progress is made in the definition and advancement of the SystemC language. Organizational features of the site have been streamlined to help facilitate technical collaboration and information exchange among technical working groups, as well as OSCI members and associated groups. In addition, OSCI member news and media coverage have been restructured to provide up-to-date news about SystemC.
While the new website is open and available to the public, access to some downloads and areas within the site are restricted. To get the most benefit from the site, OSCI encourages visitors to register and login as a community participant or member. Details of registration can be found at www.systemc.org
Three residents of Lakeland, Fla., were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., related to their participation in a conspiracy to sell millions of dollars of pirated computer software.
Maurice A. Robberson, 58; Thomas K. Robberson, 54; and Alton Lee Grooms, 56, were charged with one count each of conspiracy to violate copyright and counterfeiting laws for their participation in a conspiracy to sell more than $5 million in counterfeit copyrighted software. Maurice Robberson was also charged with a substantive count of felony copyright infringement and one count of trafficking in counterfeit goods, while Thomas Robberson was charged with one substantive felony count of copyright infringement and two counts of trafficking in counterfeit goods.
Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope to function as one very sensitive telescope.
NASA researchers will present findings on these algorithms and software programs, called the "Wavefront Sensing and Controls" at the Optics and Photonics meeting of the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) meeting. The SPIE meeting will be held at the San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, Calif., August 26-30. The session, called "TRL-6 for JWST Wavefront Sensing and Control" will be on Sunday, August 26 from 11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. PDT, in room 29B, and is Paper 6687-7 of Conference 6687.
IBM will distribute the Solaris Operating System (OS), from Sun and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's routes to market.
The agreement is an extension of IBM's existing support for the Solaris OS on select IBM BladeCenter servers. IBM and Sun's support of interoperability via open standards also means that customers will be able to extend their infrastructure by connecting new platforms easily, while preserving their initial investments.
NASA has added a new computer program to help monitor the four gyroscopes that keep the International Space Station properly oriented without the use of rocket fuel. During a spacewalk on Monday, two astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour removed and replaced a gyroscope that failed in late 2006.
Computer scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., designed the new software for the space station. The Inductive Monitoring System will be added to a group of existing tools to identify and track problems related to the gyroscopes.