[Haskell-cafe] OpenSPARC project applicant chosen

I am very pleased to announce that we have chosen Ben Lippmeier for the OpenSPARC project. ﻿Congratulations Ben! Ben will spend three months hacking on GHC to make it perform well on the latest multi-core OpenSPARC chips. I would also like to thank the other people who applied. The reviewers were very impressed by the number of strong applications. About the project ----------------- http://haskell.org/opensparc/ It is a joint project between Sun Microsystems and the Haskell.org community. Sun has provided the funding for Ben to work on this full time for three months and has donated a powerful SPARC server for him and the rest of us to use. Ben will be working with Roman Leshchinskiy as a mentor and Darryl Gove as an adviser. ﻿Roman works on Data Parallel Haskell at UNSW and ﻿Darryl is a senior staff engineer in the SPARC compiler team at Sun. If you want to follow the progress we will be using the existing ghc development mailing list: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc and a corner of the ghc development wiki: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/OpenSPARC Duncan (project coordinator)