ANNOUNCEMENT: Zillion 0.1 released

[Stefan Böhringer]

ANNOUNCEMENT
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This is version 0.1 of the Zillion project.

What is Zillion?
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The Zillion Project is a distributed computing project reminiscent of
the good old Zilla.app of NeXTstep days. It is based on GNUstep, the
most promising OPENSTEP replacement as of today.  Jobs can be created
from simple template projects and can be submitted with a single command
to the Zillion Server which in turn will distribute the job amongst the
registered clients. No other network resources than the distributed
objects (DO) port of the server machine has to be available. The key
features are as follows:

    * Rapid turn around cycles for job submission
    * Dynamic addition/removal of client nodes
    * Full OO-design
    * No need for shared network resources
    * Real-time capabilities
    * Lean and clean
    * Open and free

Initial features in Version 0.1
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   * Job submission with class unloading working properly.

   * Unprioritized load balancing for several jobs.

Where can you get it?  How can you compile it?
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   The Zillion project is hosted at http://zillion.sf.net. You can
download version 0.1 or you can checkout a fresh cvs version.

   A recent cvs checkout of the GNUstep Base Library is required to run
Zillion.

Where do I send bug reports?
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  Please submit bug reports to the GNUstep mailing list
(<mailto:gnustep-discuss@gnu.org>)
or to me personally (<mailto:zillion at s-boehringer.de>).

Can I help?
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  Of course you can. You are welcome to join me in developing Zillion.
Also you may write documentation or submit useful or illustrative
applications of Zillion.

Other Information
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        * Check out the Zillion web site. (<http://zillion.sf.net/>).
        * Look at the GNUstep Web site to understand the underlying technology
          (<http://gnustep.org>).
        * The Genecruncher Website displays an implementation of a Linux
cluster
          to run Zillion (<http://www.s-boehringer.de/genecruncher>).
        * A wiki page is hosted on the GNUstep Wiki:
(<http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Zillion%20Wiki%20Pages>).