Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms

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Emerging computer platforms promise substantial benefits over current systems. For example, hyperscale ARM™ servers promise savings of up to 90% in space, power consumption, and cooling requirements. Despite the compelling benefits, adoption of these systems hinges on the availability of industry-standard software.

Open Source Technology for Emerging Platform (OSTEP) applied research at Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technology is focused on bringing standard open source software, including Linux, web, application server, file and print, and database software, to these emerging platforms.

NSERC Industrial Research Chair

Seneca College has been awarded an NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges (IRCC) grant for OSTEP research.

The OSTEP chairholder is Chris Tyler, and the industrial partner is Red Hat, Inc. The term of the IRCC grant is March 2012 to March 2017.

Fedora ARM

The initial phases of OSTEP research involve advancing the state of the Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture project, bringing the thousands of open source packages in the Fedora distribution to low-power ARM processors. Seneca operates the public Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem and collaborates globally with members of the Fedora community to prepare the Fedora ARM software releases. We are steadily moving toward the goal of promoting ARM from secondary to primary architecture status.

Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix

In addition to the Fedora ARM releases, the OSTEP project maintains the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, which combines the Fedora ARM software with proprietary software and some hardware-specific packages to support the Raspberry Pi $35 educational computer.

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