--------------------------------------------------------- Our excuses if you receive multiple copies of this mail --------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce the first beta releas of our SAGA C++ implementation! (available at http://saga.cct.lsu.edu/) The implementation tries to strictly implement the SAGA Core API specification, and is designed to allow bindings to multiple Grid middlewares, by using a plugin mechanism (adaptors). At the moment, only bindings to local functionality is included by default, but we are working on providing bindings to the following Grid systems: - Globus Pre-WS - Globus WS (http://www.globus.org/) - OMII-OK (GridSam & Co.) (http://www.omii.ac.uk/) - XtreemOS (http://www.xtreemos.eu/) Nevertheless, this release is functional on its own and can be used for application development and testing in local environments. The goal of this release is twofold: Firstly, we want to use this release for a number of tutorials over the next months, to allow grid application developers to familiarize themself with the SAGA C++ API bindings. Secondly, we would like to involve grid middleware developers as early as possible, to plan for adaptor development for their middleware. The release has a number of known shortcomings (approximate timelines for release fixes are given): - the documentation, for both end users and adaptor developers, is minimal - for questions/feedback, please use the mailinglist at saga-users@cct.lsu.edu - end user documentation is expected by October 2007 - only few examples are included - we are working on tutorial material and examples, which should be available by June 2007 - remote adaptors will be released separately, with most of the ones mentioned above by Fall 2007 Having said that: the release IS fully functional, and has been tested on Linux, Windows and MacOS-X (build environments for all three platforms are included). We would appreciate feedback and bugreports, on the mailing list at saga-users@cct.lsu.edu and on the bug tracker at http://fortytwo.cct.lsu.edu:8000/SAGA Best regards, Harmut Kaiser (CCT/LSU) Andre Merzky (VU) Ole Weidner (CCT/LSU)