Cactus Code Thorn Nirvana
Author(s)    : Christian Reisswig, Erik Schnetter
Maintainer(s): Cactus team
Licence      : LGPL
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1. Purpose

Distribute the Nirvana library.

The Nirvana file format provides an API for reading and writing
simulation data, and is a particular way of storing any kind of
simulation data including its meta data using HDF5. High-level
routines are offered to store and retrieve data from Nirvana.