ADIOS v2.0.0 Alpha Release

Initial release of the ADaptable Input Output System, ADIOS, version 2.0.0. This is an alpha release intended to be distributed so users and developers can test the preliminary list of supported features, provide feedback on the source code, documentation, API, and development flows, etc., and report bugs. This version is not intended for production quality purposes.

Please see Getting Started for instructions on how to configure and build this release, along with the User Guide.

Summary
Supported 64-bit OS	Linux
	Mac OS X El Capitan
	Windows 10
Minimum Compiler Versions	gcc v4.8.1
	clang 3.3
	Visual Studio 2015
	Intel 16
Distributed 3rd Party	PyBind11
	pugixml
	GoogleTest
	KWSys
	JSON for Modern C++

Feature Support

This is list of partial features support in ADIOS 2.0.0 that are included in ADIOS 1.12. The goal of this list is to provide a simple overview to those familiar with ADIOS. It also provides a roadmap of the features from ADIOS 1.12 to be implemented in the next beta release in December 2017.

Feature	ADIOS 1.12 Support	ADIOS 2.0.0 Support
Write API
Local Variable	✅ (Offsets, LocalDimensions)	✅ (Start, Count)
Global Variable	✅ (Global)	✅ (Variable)
Joined Dimensions	❌	✅
Dimension Variable	✅	deprecated
Constant Dimension Variable	❌	✅
Selection	✅	partial
Memory Selection	✅	❌
Attributes	✅	❌
Transforms	✅	❌
Config XML	✅	✅
Threaded Operations	❌	✅
Time Aggregation	✅	✅
Collective Metadata	✅	❌ (see Utils bpmeta)
BP1 Format	✅	✅ (bitmap stats deprecated)
BP2 Format	---	(experimental)
I/O Modes	✅ (Transports)	partial
BP1 File N-to-N	✅ (POSIX)	✅
BP1 File N-to-M	✅ (MPI_Aggregate)	❌
HDF5	✅	✅
WAN (DataMan)	❌	✅
Read API	✅	partial wrapper around ADIOS1
Utils		all compatible with ADIOS1.12
bpmeta	✅	❌
bpls	✅	❌
bpdump	✅	❌
Language Support
C++	✅ through C	✅ native
Python	✅ Cython	✅ PyBind11
C	✅	❌
Fortran	✅	❌
Other
Automated testing	❌	✅ (via CTest and GoogleTest)
Windows support	❌	✅ (via CTest and GoogleTest)