Passed ctest (MPI and nonMPI) excluding ADIOS1 engine, and Python bindings
HDF5, C bindings and C++ tests working
Introduced BeginStep EndStep functions
Renamed IO GetVariable/Attribute to InquireVariable/Attribute

Implemented basic buffer reading functionality
Added threading for bp serialization/deserialization
Refactored MPI functionality
Engine is now a reference
Initial Read API

1 Now IO (replaced Method) and is the factory for Variables and Engines
2 Reduced core components to user-public objects only
3 Moved and reorganized all helper functions to helper directory
4 Engines are now lightweight (except for ADIOS1Reader WIP) using MACRO
5 HF5Common and ADIOS1Common (except for Readers WIP) are now part of the toolkit so they can be reused by Engines
6 TransportMan is a new layer for transport management (file is default)
7 DataMan will be implemented under toolkit/transportman/dataman
8 Template separation (tcc and inl) applied all over the code
9 Improved Doxygen documentation

Runtime Issues:
DataMan library compilation (cacheman)
ADIOS1 Warning
TestADIOSInterfaceWrite catches exceptions

Adapted to the new code structure
BP1Writer is a self-contained class that can be reused across Engines
BP1Writer allows for threaded copies for large payloads

To do:
Data Buffer memory management strategy

Move adiosTemplates.h to adiosTemplate.inc

Removed elements that are not used

Tested

added: 
./packages/format/bp1
./packages/profiling/iochrono
./packages/wan/dataman (for DataMan integration in ADIOS)

Added EnginePy as a thin manager wrapper to adios::Engine (member of
EnginePy)

Write accepts numpy arrays (ndarray) seamlessly

Write Outputs Verified with ADIOS 1.0 bpls

To do:
Advance

Continued debugging BP1 Writer for a single variable write

Fixed a number of minor things for DataMan engine. The first real-world demo code ran successfully with the AdiosPP framework

Pull request to Jason's branch

Other DataMan library dependencies must be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Added BP1Writer pgindex and metadata functionality. Need to hook it with
BPWriter engine 

Added complex support in ADIOS class and DataMan engine and example for
DataManWriter

Modified Makefile.libs and Makefiles in ./examples/hello/datamanReader
and ./examples/hello/datamanWriter

Need to set DATAMAN_LOC in those makefiles for local DataMan
installation.

Need to set DATAMAN_LOCATION in buildDataMan.sh for local DataMan
installation.

Run ./buildDataman.sh see contents for detailed info

see examples/hello/dataman and examples/hello/writer for working
examples

Run ./buildTest.sh to build and run Vis engine example

Corrected bugs in Group in GetDimensions functions