Silo (library)
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| Filename extension |
.silo |
|---|---|
| Developed by | scientific data format |
| Website | wci |
Silo is a computer
HDF5
.
Currently,
open source software package with its start at LLNL, supports the Silo format for visualization
and analysis, among many other formats. As of Version 4.8, July, 2010, the Silo source code is now available
under the standard BSD Open Source License. The source code for two compression libraries which have been part of
previous releases of the Silo library is not available under the
terms of the BSD Open Source license. These are the Hzip and FPzip
compression libraries. For this reason, two different releases of the Silo source code are
made available.
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