[workspace-announce] Announcing the "cloudkit" release (1.3.2)

[Kate Keahey <keahey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am happy to announce the TP 1.3.2 release -- the "cloudkit release" of 
the Workspace Service. You can download the new release from:
http://workspace.globus.org/downloads/index.html

As many of you have probably noticed we have recently been sending 
announcements about the availability of compute clouds for scientific 
communities: http://workspace.globus.org/clouds/.

In a nutshell, TP 1.3.2 allows you to build your own cloud. The main 
addition is a new "cloud client" for the workspace service which 
simplifies (and also hides) much of the workspace functionality to 
provide an EC2-like set of features. The new client also provides a 
limited form of "contextualization" (more coming in the next release!). 
We also provide a step-by-step "cloud guide" that allows you to 
configure your own cloud. For a complete set of new features (many more 
but less significant) look to:
http://workspace.globus.org/vm/TP1.3.2/index.html#changelog

We look forward to hearing from you -- and if you do decide to configure 
a cloud and would like help finding users, please do let us know.

Have fun!

The Workspace Team
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Kate Keahey,
Mathematics & CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Computation Institute, University of Chicago