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+ <title>FlexIO Info</title>
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+ <img src="Images/FlexIO.gif">
+ <hr>
+ <h1>Introduction</h1>
+ FlexIO is a compact API for storing multidimensional scientific
+ data. It hides the differences between underlying file formats
+ including
+ <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF-SDS</a>,
+ <a href="IEEEIO.html">IEEEIO</a>, and network socket connections.
+ (<i>Support for HDF5 will be added soon</i>). It is designed to
+ allow you to use exactly the same subroutine/method calls to store
+ your data regardless of the underlying file format.
+ FlexIO includes C++, C, and Fortran77/F90 interfaces and it has
+ been ported to Sun-Solaris, Digital Unix, Cray-Unicos, SGI-Irix
+ (32 and 64 bit), Windows95 and NT.<p>
+
+ FlexIO borrows its terminology and storage-style from
+ <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF and NetCDF</a>.
+ The file stores a sequence of multidimesional
+ arrays which are referred to generically as <b>datasets</b>.
+ The dimensions and datatype are stored with each dataset so that
+ the data is completely self-describing. In addition,
+ NetCDF-style named attributes can be stored with each dataset to
+ add information like coordinates, units, and other auxillary
+ information.<p>
+
+ A set of higher level API's sit on top of FlexIO which permit
+ simplified access to complex datastructures like Finite-Element,
+ Adaptive Mesh Refinement, and Unigrid datastructures. In
+ addition the MPIO interface provides access to parallel IO for
+ MPI codes.<p>
+
+ <hr>
+ <h1>Information</h1>
+ <DL>
+ <DT><b>Supported Datafile Formats</b>
+ <DD><a href="IEEEIO.html">IEEEIO binary file format</a>
+ <DD><a href="HDFIO.html">HDF 4.x SDS file format</a>
+ <DD><a href="SockIO.html">Network Socket remote file</a>
+ <DT><b>FlexIO API's</b>
+ <DD><a href="Using.html">C, C++, and Fortran programming
+ interface</a>
+ <DD><a href="HighLev.html">Higher level interfaces for
+ complex datastructures</a>
+ <DT><b>FlexIO based Software Tools</b>
+ <DD><a href="Utilities.html">Utilities and Data Translators</a>
+ <DD><a href="VizReaders.html">Readers for Visualization
+ Systems</a>
+ <DT><b>Getting the Source Code and Compiling</b>
+ <DD><a href="Aquiring.html">Download the source code</a>
+ <DD><a href="Aquiring.html#binaries">Download precompiled libraries</a>
+ <DD><a href="Aquiring.html#compiling">Compiling FlexIO-IEEEIO</a>
+ </DL>
+ <hr>
+ <address><a href="mailto:jshalf@ncsa.uiuc.edu">John Shalf</a></address>
+ <!-- Created: Mon Apr 7 12:52:52 MDT 1997 -->
+ <!-- hhmts start -->
+Last modified: Fri May 29 12:31:38 CDT 1998
+<!-- hhmts end -->
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