NVML "alpha" release

[Andy Rudoff]

I'm happy to announce that the NVM Libraries are fully functional and have been validated to alpha quality, meaning all features are passing their tests and there are no known critical issues.

Performance and reliability work is ongoing.  In addition, we expect to be adding a couple more interesting libraries to the suite of NVM Libraries over the coming months (watch this list for details), a Windows port of the libraries is underway, and we will be starting work on C++ bindings for the NVM Libraries soon.

NVML team member Piotr Balcer has been contributing some very interesting blog articles, covering tutorials, examples, benchmarks, and most recently an interesting discussion on how we might approach multiple threads contributing to a single transaction in libpmemobj.

Pre-built packages and source blobs for the alpha release are available in the GitHub releases area.  Of course you're always welcome to the grab the latest development source directly.

-andy