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