| Re: RSI Announces HDF5 Support -- Free IDL 5.5 Plug-in Available [message #31073] |
Tue, 18 June 2002 11:13 |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Dear Stephanie
This is fine,
are there plans to update netCDF 2.4 too ?
regards
Reimar
Stephanie Staley wrote:
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> RSI is pleased to announce new support for the Hierarchical Data Format
> version 5 (HDF5) in IDL. IDL 5.5 customers can visit the RSI Web site to
> download a free plug-in. The plug-in can be easily dropped into existing IDL
> 5.5 installations to enable reading and querying HDF5 files.
>
> The HDF5 file format was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing
> Applications and is designed for scientific data consisting of a hierarchy
> of datasets and attributes. The IDL HDF5 interface consists of a dynamically
> loadable module (DLM) that provides a set of IDL routines to directly access
> the NCSA HDF5 C library. It is available for Windows, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64
> Unix, IBM AIX, Linux Red Hat, SGI IRIX, and Solaris/Sparc. IDL 5.6, to be
> released later this year, will include the new HDF5 support as well.
>
> HDF5 represents a complete redesign of the format by the NCSA. The new
> version is intended to address limitations in earlier versions of HDF.
> Installing the HDF5 plug-in will not replace the existing HDF functionality
> in IDL. Rather, IDL will now support both HDF version 4 and HDF5.
>
> For more information and to download the HDF5 plug-in for IDL 5.5, please
> visit http://www.rsinc.com/services/output.cfm?tip_id=3349.
--
Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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