[Paracomp-devel] ParaComp 1.2 released !

[Shree K. <shr...@hp...>]

Hi All,

I've just release ParaComp v1.2 . Do give it a try !

Release 1.2

         New Library Features
           - Support for 16 & 32 bit floating point values for compositing
             The tokens for these are :
                    PC_PF_RGB16F, PC_PF_RGBA16F,
                    PC_PF_RGB32F, PC_PF_RGBA32F.
             16 bit calculations are done using ILM's half library, so 
expect these to be slow.
           - Accumulation operator PC_COMP_ADD.
           - EXT_composite - an extension to use ParaComp as a 
compositing-only
             backend. This extension allows ParaComp to be used as a 
compositing
             backend for Equalizer (http://equalizergraphics.com).
           - Alterate operator, PC_COMP_ALPHA_SORT2_HP for 
alpha-blending. This
             is used for volume rendering by eVolve (volume rendering
             demo application that is part of Equalizer).
           - Added a way to control which TCP ports the library uses

         Works on new platforms
           - Mac OSX, Darwin (x86/x86_64, PPC)
           - SGI Prism (Linux on Itanium)
           - better support for 32 bit linux

         src
           - Fixed : Alpha blending bug in pure CPU code (SF Bug 1928113)
           - Fixed : MPI interaction issue (SF Bug 1827022, 1953910)
           - Improved build system, compiles with GCC 4.x
           - Cleaner & better compiles
           - Works with OFED 1.2 and above
           - Bumped up the version number to 1.2

         samples
           - Uses nVidia glh for trackball, much better than older trackball
             code
           - Easier to run multiple instances of samples on a single node
           - New sample programs
             - intermeditate/multithreaded : Multithreaded use of ParaComp

         test
           - new directory with test programs.

         doc
           - documentation of changes from API v1.1 to v1.2

Cheers
-- Shree