news: DIANE release 2.0-beta18

[Jakub.M...@gmail.com]

News:

* From 21 July 2009 the default is Ganga 5.3.1 (changed from 5.1.9).
Any fresh DIANE installation will automatically fetch the new
default Ganga version.

* OSG resources were successfully used in Geant4 release validation
production (June 2008)

* Workflow management scheduler for MOTEUR developed by Creatis/Lyon
* code: http://isscvs.cern.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/apps/moteur/?cvsroot=diane
* project page: http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~glatard/dianeMoteur.html
* contact: Tristan Glatard

* Tutorial with BLAST application (Gene Sequencing) developed by
BalticGrid
* details: http://grid.cyfronet.pl/szepieniec/bg2school
* contact: Tomasz Szepieniec

* DIANE release 2.0-beta18
* new policy WORKER_TIME_LIMIT in SimpleTaskScheduler: limits the
lifetime of the worker agent (*)
* new platforms added: slc4_ia32_UCS2-gcc34, slc4_amd64_UCS2-gcc34
to support "strange" python flavours
* added diane_platform_doctor.py script to help solving omniORB
installation problems
* more info: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ArdaGrid/DIANEPlatformDoctor
* miscellaneous minor fixes

(*)
If worker gets older than WORKER_TIME_LIMIT then new tasks will not be
assigned to this worker and the worker will die as soon as it
completes processing the ongoing task. A use case is OSG resources
which prefer shorter jobs (e.g. 8-12 hours) as opposed to WLCG
resources which prefer longer jobs.