[CIG-LONG] Gale 1.2.2

[Walter Landry]

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 1.2.2, an implicit finite
element code for the long term tectonics community.  This latest
release features extensive benchmarks, parallel vtk output, and a
rough implementation of friction.

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
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* Several high precision benchmarks have been incorporated as tests for Gale.
* The vtk output plugin now uses the parallel xml format, easing
  visualization of runs with large numbers of processors.
* The ordering of tensor values in the vtk output has been fixed.
* There is a rough implementation of static and kinetic friction boundary
  conditions.
* The location of the input files has been reorganized.
* StrainWeakening now takes an initialSofteningStrain and
  FinalSofteningStrain.  Previously, initialSofteningStrain was hard
  coded to be zero and "finalSofteningStrain" was just
  "softeningStrain".  Using the old name "softeningStrain" will still
  work.

The current goals are to work on

  * Cleanup friction boundary conditions
  * Better normal stress boundary conditions
  * Deformed lower boundaries
  * Interface with custom surface process models in parallel