CFV: New Project: Sumatra

[Mario Torre]

Vote: yes

2012/9/11 John Coomes <John.Coomes at oracle.com>:
> I hereby propose the creation of the Sumatra Project with John Coomes
> as the Lead and the OpenJDK HotSpot Group as the sponsoring Group.
>
> As discussed earlier [0], this project intends to enable Java applications
> to seamlessly take advantage of a GPU--whether it is a discrete device or
> integrated with a CPU--with the objective to improve the application
> performance.
>
> John has been working on the HotSpot JVM for almost 10 years mainly on
> garbage collection where he was one of the primary developers of the
> parallel compacting garbage collector.
>
> The initial Committers will be: Eric Caspole, David Chase, John
> Coomes, Gary Frost, Brian Goetz, Vladimir Kozlov, Ryan LaMothe,
> Laurent Morichetti, John Rose, Guy Steele, Jean-Baptiste Tristan,
> Mikael Vidstedt, Roland Westrelin and Bharadwaj Yadavalli.
>
> The initial Authors will be: Alex Buckley, Tom Deneau, Lee Howes,
> Mark Nutter and Vasanth Venkatachalam.
>
> Votes are due by Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 00:00:00 UTC [1].
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [2] are eligible to vote on this motion.
> Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [3].
>
> John Coomes
>
> [0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2012-August/002717.html
> [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+Project+Sumatra+Vote&iso=20120925T00
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote



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