Introduction
FlexIO is a compact API for storing multidimensional scientific
data. It hides the differences between underlying file formats
including
HDF-SDS,
IEEEIO, and network socket connections.
(Support for HDF5 will be added soon). 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.
FlexIO borrows its terminology and storage-style from
HDF and NetCDF.
The file stores a sequence of multidimesional
arrays which are referred to generically as datasets.
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.
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.
Information
- Supported Datafile Formats
- IEEEIO binary file format
- HDF 4.x SDS file format
- Network Socket remote file
- FlexIO API's
- C, C++, and Fortran programming
interface
- Higher level interfaces for
complex datastructures
- FlexIO based Software Tools
- Utilities and Data Translators
- Readers for Visualization
Systems
- Getting the Source Code and Compiling
- Download the source code
- Download precompiled libraries
- Compiling FlexIO-IEEEIO
John Shalf
Last modified: Fri May 29 12:31:38 CDT 1998