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Re: scientific data format [message #14164 is a reply to message #13985]

Tue, 26 January 1999 00:00

raph
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Vincent Fournier-Sicre <vfs@acri.fr> wrote:
> I am still undecided whether I should use NetCDF, CDF or
> HDF format to store data. Could somebody tell me what the
> pros/cons are for each one of these formats? Is there a
> document available somewhere that compares those formats?
> By advance thanks,
> Vincent

I asked the same question to the consultants at NERSC about 6 months
ago. Their response was to go with HDF since it was a little better
supported (both at NERSC and in general), a little faster evolving, and
accessable by more tools (though there are a fair number of tools which
can access netCDF and not HDF). There are in fact efforts under way to
make HDF and netCDF interoperable, check out
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#hdf

Raph

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