[CIG-ALL] Gale 1.2.0

[Walter Landry]

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 1.2.0, an implicit finite
element code for the long term tectonics community.  This latest
release features parallel scaling to 128 processors.  I have attached
a graph of the scaling.

You can download binaries or the source code from

   http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/packages/long/gale/

Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org

Release Notes

* Gale has been shown to scale to at least 128 processors
* The VTKOutput and DumpSwarm output plugins work in parallel.
* Gale defaults to installing in the current directory.  So the
  binary is in bin/Gale
* The --with-petsc-arch and --with-libxml-libdir options work
* The windows binary may not work completely with all of the sample
  input files.

While this release should be useful to many researchers, we continue
to work on

* Isostasy
* Interface with custom surface process models
* Deformed lower boundaries
* Frictional boundary conditions
* More documentation on thermal problems
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