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)