Version 2.1 of NCSA Polyglot released

The Innovative Software and Data Analysis Division at NCSA has released version 2.1 of NCSA Polyglot, a distributed and highly extensible framework for file format conversions. New features include:

• emphasis on REST interface
• re-architecture based on RabbitMQ for Software Server discovery and distribution of jobs
• stateless head node for robustness and better scalability
• all files are now passed around as URLs to eliminate the copying of files when possible
• added support for container formats
• added support for double formats
• added DFDL examples
• added basic authentication
• added integration tests
• numerous bug fixes

Pre-compiled binaries can be found at: http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/projects/artifacts.php?key=POL.

For more details see: http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/projects/POL.

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