AN open-source laboratory named after David Patterson, the winner of the 2017 Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing, was inaugurated with a ceremony at Wuzhou Guest House in Futian on Tuesday. David Patterson, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley who is known for pioneering contributions to the fifth generation Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC-V) — an open-source hardware instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer principles — has been hired as head of the laboratory based at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Research Institute. Patterson led the Berkeley RISC project in the U.S. and is an active member of the RISC-V Foundation, which offers free and open ISA enabling, a new era of processor innovation, through open standard collaboration. The lab in Shenzhen plans to enroll 10 postgraduates in 2020 and a total of 100 postgraduates in five years, engaging in frontier curricula related to RISC-V on the basis of interdisciplinary courses in digital science and information technology. Students will have a chance to share research experiences and the development of science at the RISC-V platform with experts from academic and industrial fields. The inauguration of Patterson RISC-V International Open Source Laboratory will intensify Shenzhen’s network of global enterprises and help the city’s construction of a global tech ecology circle, as well as the industrial layout of intelligent hardware. (Han Ximin) |