Introduction
IEEEIO is a compact library for storing multidimensional
scientific data in a binary format that can be transported
between different computer systems. It derives its name from the
fact that it depends on the
IEEE
754
standard representations
for floating point numbers to achieve its portability. It
provides many of the capabilities of the
HDF-SDS and NetCDF
file formats however it is much smaller and simpler than
either. In addition, it is
reasonably fast when compared
to raw f77 unformatted IO.
The programming interface allows complete
interoperability with the HDF and NetCDF formats if those
libraries are linked in. It is not intended to supercede these
formats. It is designed to replace them only where the extra
functionality and consequent size of these libraries is not
desired.
Information
John Shalf
Last modified: Fri May 29 10:06:40 CDT 1998