[cwn] Attn: Development Editor, Latest Caml Weekly News
Alan Schmitt
alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org
Tue Dec 16 00:27:19 PST 2008
Hello,
Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of December 02 to
09, 2008.
There won't be a CWN next week. Merry Christmas to all!
1) OCaml version 3.11.0 released
2) pa_monad 6.0
3) daml - a CUDA binding
4) SICSA Chairs, Lectureships and Research Fellowships at St Andrews
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1) OCaml version 3.11.0 released
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/ae440d7937df6eef#
>
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** Xavier Leroy announced:
Binary distributions for Windows (MSVC and Mingw toolchains) are now
available from the usual place:
<http://caml.inria.fr/download.html>
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2) pa_monad 6.0
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/d3c6aacbfed3f44b#
>
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** Jacques, Lydia and Oleg announced:
pa_monad has been updated to work with Objective Caml 3.11.0. Quite a
lot of maintenance work has also been performed (including a renumbering
of the versions to be less haphazard). See
<http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/pa_monad/index.html> for details.
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3) daml - a CUDA binding
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/f7e8a8a537521f4c#
>
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** Sashan Govender announced:
I've uploaded some work on a CUDA binding to OCaml that I've been
doing in my spare time over here
<https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/daml/>. Here's a brief summary of
what you can do with it at the moment:
- allocate memory on a gpu
- deallocate that resource
- copy and integer array from OCaml onto the gpu
- execute a kernel function to process the data on the gpu
- copy the result back into the OCaml array.
There are a few example programs in the repository as well.
Pretty basic but gotta start somewhere and my time for free software is
limited.
Things to todo:
- Devise a strategy for minimizing copies from the host data structure
to the gpu.
- Expose more of the CUDA runtime API (this can for the most part be
done with camlidl)
- Expose the CUDA driver API.
- Write some more example progams.
- Tidy up the OMakefiles.
Any feedback appreciated.
There's a mailing list here daml-users at lists.forge.ocamlcore.org for
questions.
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4) SICSA Chairs, Lectureships and Research Fellowships at St Andrews
Archive: <http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/7b07fbeb8ad21ed4#
>
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** Kevin Hammond:
The School of Computer Science is about to advertise 2 chairs (full
professor), 1 lectureship (assistant professor) and 2 postdoctoral
research
fellowships, with a closing date of 27th February 2009. The posts are
sponsored by SICSA (the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science
Alliance).
<http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/sicsa-ad>
The chairs and lectureship are permanent, tenured positions. The
fellowships
are three-year positions. There will be additional lectureships
advertised in
the future.
Applications from good researchers welcomed.
I would be happy to answer general questions about the School, town
etc., of
course.
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using
vim (version 6 or greater).
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zM
If you know of a better way, please let me know.
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