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Hello, I am a new to hdf and I am deciding whether our lab should use it as our data format.

Our current software structure takes advantage the unix pipes to encapsulate atomic commands on data.
Example:
    < data.dat do_op1 | do_op2 > out. dat

It seems like hdf supports sockets and a fifo principal, can anyone point me to an example of an implementation of something similar to this?

Also, I am interested to see examples of 3d data that is not on a regular grid.

Thanks for the help

~Sean

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Hi Sean,

Hello, I am a new to hdf and I am deciding whether our lab should use it as our data format.

Our current software structure takes advantage the unix pipes to encapsulate atomic commands on data.
Example:
  < data.dat do_op1 | do_op2 > out. dat

It seems like hdf supports sockets and a fifo principal, can anyone point me to an example of an implementation of something similar to this?

  The HDF5 library doesn't support sockets by itself, but it should be possible to write an application that stored data in HDF5 files and interfaced with standard UNIX sockets for user input/output.

Also, I am interested to see examples of 3d data that is not on a regular grid.

  Here's a link to some information about the HDF5 Mesh prototype:

http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/papers/prototypes/mesh/

    Quincey Koziol
    The HDF Group

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On May 29, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Sean Ross-Ross wrote:

Thanks for the help

~Sean

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