Silo (library)
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| Silo | |
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| File name extension | .silo |
| Latest release | 4.6.1 / March 2008 |
| Type of format | scientific data format |
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 structured adaptive 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, and HDF5.
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 both in PDF and Postscript formats. Source code for Silo is available for download. [1]
