[eq-dev] 1.4 beta released!

[Stefan Eilemann]

All,

We are pleased to announce the 1.4 beta release of the Eyescale open
source packages. This release is a preview for testing the upcoming 1.4
stable release. It is the first modular release, and contains the
following libraries and new features:

* Equalizer: parallel rendering framework
** Various scalable rendering performance features: asynchronous
readbacks, region of interest and thread affinity.

* Collage: C++ library for building heterogenous, distributed applications
** Zeroconf support and node discovery
** Blocking object commits
** Increased InfiniBand RDMA performance

* GPU-SD: discovery and announcement of GPUs using zeroconf
** VirtualGL detection
** Hostname command line parameter for gpu_sd daemon

* Lunchbox: C++ library for multi-threaded programming
** Servus, C++ interface to announce, discover and iterate over
key-value pairs stored in a zeroconf service description
** LFVector, a thread-safe, lock-free vector

* Buildyard: A CMake-based superbuilder to download, configure and build
the packages and dependencies for this release
** Generates Unix Makefiles and solution files for Visual Studio 2008/10
** Simple CMake project configuration scripts
** Support for local overrides and user forks
** Extensible with custom in-house or open source projects

* http://eyescale.github.com: A website for API documentation of all
the aforementioned packages

Please test this release extensively and report any bugs on the
respective project page at https://github.com/Eyescale. The release
notes are part of the API documentation at http://eyescale.github.com.

We would like to thank all contributors who made this release possible.


Happy coding,

Stefan.
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