This directory contains the current version of FastBit (code named IBIS). Please report any problem you've encountered in using this package to . Please feel free to post any success story or paper you wrote that makes use of FastBit in some way. These will be a great value to us. This software is packaged with GNU build tools. On systems that support such tools, you should be able to build it by running the following two commands in this directory ./configure make Further information about installation is available in file INSTALL in this directory. For installation on a MS Windows system using Visual Studio, follow instructions in win/README. To check the correctness of the build, run the following command make check Read the file README in tests directory to find out more about the tests. The main body of the source code is located in directory src. The code is built into a single library named libfastbit.la on systems with libtools. Some examples of using the library are located in the directory examples. The following is a brief description of the four examples. -- ibis.cpp exercises much of the functions of the lower level indexing functions. -- tcapi.c is an example of using the C API querying defined in capi.h. -- thula.cpp exercises the querying interface defined in class ibis::table. -- ardea.cpp exercises the functions to extend a table (API defined in ibis::tablex). The directory contains a number of HTML files that documents key features of FastBit. In particular, the file quickstart.html contains brief instructions for basic tasks and should be useful starting for those not familiar with FastBit already. There is considerable amount of in-line documentation in the source code; execute the following command to invoke doxygen and extract the in-line documentation make docs The resulting documentation will be in directory doc/html. Alternatively, you may view the on-line version of the documents at http://sdm.lbl.gov/fastbit/doc/. The FastBit mailing list could be a valuable resource. It is archived on line at http://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/mailman/private/fastbit-users/. If you have question not answered in the documents and the mailing list, post your questions to the FastBit mailing list. You need to first join the mailing list by visiting https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users.