Caml Weekly News

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
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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
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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
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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@lists.forge.ocamlcore.org for
questions.
			
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4) SICSA Chairs, Lectureships and Research Fellowships at St Andrews
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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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