- Silo (library)
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latest release version = 4.6.1
latest release date = March 2008
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url = https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo/Silo is a data format and library developed at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for storing rectilinear, curvilinear, unstructured, or point meshes in 2D and 3D. It supports data upon those meshes, including scalar, vector, and tensor variables; volume fraction-based materials; and mass fraction-based species. It fully supports block structuredadaptive mesh refinement (AMR) meshes by way of mesh blocks structured in a hierarchy. Silo sits on top of other low-level storage libraries such as PDB,NetCDF , andHDF5 .Currently,
VisIt , an open source software package with its start at LLNL, supports the Silo format for visualization and analysis, among many other formats.The Silo manual is available in [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo/media/doc/LLNL-SM-401406.pdf PDF] format. Source code for Silo is available for download. [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo/silo-4.6.1/silo-4.6.1.tar.gz]
References
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