Multicore Association Adopts Special Guest Member Policy to Help Accelerate Standards Development

El DORADO HILLS, Calif., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Multicore Association (MCA) today disclosed details of a guest membership program designed to encourage substantial contributions of expertise and know-how that advance the organization's goal of speeding time to market for products with multicore implementations.

The MCA guest membership program allows individual working groups to recruit outside experts who can bring in unique knowledge or skills that would otherwise be beyond the organization's reach. While any individual can apply for a guest membership, the working group members make the formal invitation and utilize a dynamic set of criteria based on the specific needs of the working group.

The first company to join MCA under the guest program is EfficiOS, a consulting firm that specializes in research and development for operating system efficiency. EfficiOS has been participating in the Multicore Association's Tools Infrastructure Working Group (TIWG), which aims to define a common data format and standards-based mechanisms for sharing data among multicore development tools. As a guest member, EfficiOS enjoys the benefits of membership on TIWG at no charge, and is helping to yield interesting results in terms of the LTTng trace format standard and an open source reference implementation.

"Our guest membership program is designed to encourage participation in working groups by individuals or companies that have the potential to make uniquely valuable contributions upon which it would be impossible to put any price," said Markus Levy, president of the Multicore Association. "Its work on our Tools Infrastructure Working Group, which has the ambitious goal of tearing down barriers to development tool interoperability, makes EfficiOS especially deserving of this rare designation."

"We are proud of the recognition that guest membership in the Multicore Association represents, and we appreciate the generous spirit of the consortium's members in making this possible," said Mathieu Desnoyers, president of EfficiOS Inc. "EfficiOS benefits from this collaboration by gathering use-cases and feedback from the association members, which is leading toward a more comprehensive trace format standard."

Inquiries can be made to Markus Levy ([email protected]) regarding membership in the Multicore Association and participation in any of the consortium's five working groups. In line with the other working groups of the MCA, the TIWG will ultimately make the fruits of its labor publicly available to ensure unconstrained industry-wide adoption.

About The Multicore Association

The Multicore Association provides a neutral forum for vendors who are interested in, working with, and/or proliferating multicore-related products, including processors, infrastructure, devices, software, and applications. The consortium has made available its Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) specification through its website, and will soon release its Multicore Resource Management API (MRAPI). Currently, the organization also has working groups focused on: Multicore Virtualization, Multicore Resource Management, Multicore Programming Practices (MPP), and Tools Infrastructure (TIWG).

Members include:

Abo Akademi University, Argon Design, CAPS entreprise, Carnegie Mellon University, Cavium Networks, Codeplay, CriticalBlue, Delft University of Technology, EADS North America, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, EfficiOS, Enea, eSOL, Freescale Semiconductor, Huawei Technologies, IBM, IMEC, Intel, LG Electronics Co, LSI , Mentor Graphics, MIPS Technologies, National Instruments, nCore Design LLC, Netronome, Nokia Siemens Networks, OneAccess, Open Kernel Labs, Plurality, PolyCore Software, Qualcomm, RadiSys, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Tilera, University of Houston, University of Utah, and Wind River. Further information is available at www.multicore-association.org.

SOURCE The Multicore Association