Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

As planned for a few weeks ago but not yet done, I have just tagged a
beta for a Charm++ version 6.5 release. As far as I know, all of the
applications that PPL members collaborate on are working well across
the range of platforms. Our nightly build results are stable and
clean. Assuming we receive no bug reports, the release will
essentially match the current codebase. Thus, I kindly request that
users take this opportunity to test the tagged version and email the
list about any problems encountered.

This release will incorporate many improvements and new features since
the release of Charm++ 6.4 9 months ago. I'll follow up with a set of
release notes describing the highlights. For the full gory details,
see the commit history in our git repository:

https://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb2.cgi?p=charm.git;a=summary
git://charm.cs.illinois.edu/charm.git

Thanks, and have a happy new year!

Phil