Kepler is an open-source scientific workflow system that allows scientists to design, implement, execute, and share scientific workflows for analysis and modeling tasks (http://kepler-project.org/).
We are pleased to announce the release of Kepler RC1 (kepler-1.0.0rc1), which serves as a pre-release test package for Kepler 1.0.0 and is now available for download from the Kepler web site: http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Downloads This release has all of the features we plan to include in the 1.0.0 release, and is made available so that we can find any last problems before the final release of 1.0.0. We plan to release Kepler 1.0.0 in March 2008. Please report your successes and problems with this release to the Kepler Users' mailing list (kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org) so that we can prepare an excellent 1.0.0 release of Kepler. Much of the work for this release has been conducted by the SEEK, SDM, and Ptolemy projects and by many other contributors (see the Documentation page). Continued work on improving Kepler for use and extension by the science community will be conducted by the Kepler Core project (see [1]). Kepler is an open project and we welcome participation and contributions. Regards, Matt Jones [1] http://www.kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=KeplerCOREAnnouncement -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew B. Jones Director of Informatics Research and Development National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) UC Santa Barbara jones at nceas.ucsb.edu Ph: 1-907-523-1960 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinfo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
