SAGA C++ Framework         
                    - A Simple API for Grid Computing - 

  What is it?
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  The SAGA C++ Framework is the reference implementation of the Open Grid
  Forum <http://www.ogf.org/> SAGA (Simple API For Grid Applications)
  standard. 

  The Latest Version
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  Details of the latest version can be found on the SAGA C++ Framework
  project page under <http://saga.cct.lsu.edu>.

  Documentation
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  The documentation available as of the date of this release is included
  in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most up-to-date
  documentation for the current release can be found on the project page 
  under <http://saga.cct.lsu.edu>.

  Installation
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  Please see the file called INSTALL for installation instructions and
  platform specific notes.

  Licensing
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  Please see the file called LICENSE.

  Contacts
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     o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
       security fixes, general news and information about the SAGA C++
       Framework subscribe to the saga-users mailing list as described
       under <https://mail.cct.lsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/saga-users>



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SAGA C++ FRAMEWORK
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  This is version 0.5 of the SAGA C++ Framework, an implementation 
  of the Open Grid Forum (see http://www.ogf.org/) 
  SAGA (Simple API For Grid Application) standard. It's designed to 
  make it easy to develop high-level plattform independent Grid 
  applications using a state-of-the-art C++ library.
  

DOCUMENTATION
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  If you have any problems or questions regarding SAGA, feel free
  to subscribe and post to the SAGA mailing list at:
  
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  The doc/ subdirectory contains a number of documents and
  manuals as well as a generated API doc.


FEATURES
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  SAGA describes a high level (i.e. application oriented) API for 
  Grid Computing. It targets mostly on scientific applications, but 
  is intended to extend its scope with additional API packages 
  (see below) in the future.

  The SAGA API consists of two major components: the SAGA
  look-and-feel, and the SAGA API packages.  The L&F part of the
  SAGA specification describes all elements of the API which are
  common to the API packages, such as: asynchronous operations
  (i.e. the task model), monotoring of entities, attribute
  setting on SAGA objects, exception handling, security related
  issues etc.

  The SAGA API packages provide the grid related programming
  paradigms the application programmer would be interested in.
  The current version of this SAGA implementation provides the
  follwing API packages, which are all part of the initial SAGA
  Core API specification:

  Core components and API:
  
    - job package                job management and monitoring
    - file package               remote file/directory handling + I/O 
    - logical file package       replica management
    - stream package             BSD like byte oriented data streams
    - rpc package                remote procedure calls
    - advert package             persistent application information

  The software also includes a set of adaptors providing the
  functionality required by the packages:

  Default adaptor set:

    - local file adaptor using the boost::filesystem API
    - local job adaptor implementing the job interface using threads
    - replica management adaptor using SQLite or PostgreSQL as DB
    - advert adaptor using SQLite or PostgreSQL as advert storage 
    - rpc client adaptor using the XmlRPC library