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diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index 5c7f020..5c58725 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -238,12 +238,16 @@ template for building your own data converter program.\\ \item Does the file contain chunked or unchunked data ? \item How many processors were used to produce the data ? \item How many I/O processors were used to write the data ? + \item What Cactus version is this datafile compatible with ? \end{itemize} Such information is attached as attributes to the very first dataset in the file. Since we assume unchunked data here the processor information isn't relevant -- unchunked data can be fed back into a Cactus simulation running on an arbitrary - number of processors. + number of processors.\\ + The Cactus version ID must be present to indicate that grid variables + with multiple timelevels should be recovered following the new + timelevel scheme (as introduced in Cactus beta 10). \end{enumerate} The example C program goes through all of these steps and creates a datafile |