Hi Toby,

 >      > I'll be available from Tuesday afternoon on. What about wednesday
>     13:00 UTC
>      > and 15:00 UTC?
>
>     Both of these are fine by me! Sorry for the delay responding.
>
>
> Let's stay 15:00UTC, then, after the tea!
> Karl has been pretty busy lately. In case he cannot come on Wednesday
> perhaps we should re-arrange it later. Since you're going to Texas on
> Sunday, we should be careful!

I should be fine with Wednesday, 15:00 UTC.


>     I've also now managed to integrate user-provided kernels into the
>     PyViennaCL expression graph. Have a look at [1]. The user provides a
>     subclass of CustomNode describing the argument and result types and
>     giving either the kernel source or a callable kernel object, and then
>     any instance of the class is treated just like any other PyViennaCL
>     statement node: it is computed only when necessary, and admits of all
>     the usual operations.
>
>     At the moment, OpenCL and main memory back-ends are supported, and any
>     number of operands. So you can use it to implement any arbitrary
>     function of any set of ViennaCL objects.
>
>     [1]
>     
> https://github.com/viennacl/pyviennacl-dev/blob/custom-kernels/examples/simple-custom-node-sum.py
>
>
> Excellent! It will be very convenient to python users who need (and can
> code) functionnalities not yet implemented into ViennaCL and/or ported
> to pyViennaCL, such as sorting, etc. You can also provide some routines
> for customizations, such as setting the local sizes / global sizes. If
> it is already possible, it would be nice to add it to the example.

Toby, this is excellent, great news! Let's discuss additional feature 
ideas at the IRC meeting then.

Best regards,
Karli



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