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openPMD standard for describing particle beams. #1024

Open DavidSagan opened 4 years ago

DavidSagan commented 4 years ago

By the way, in case there is an interest, there is an effort among people at several laboratories to standardize particle beam data files. This standard is called openPMD and more information is at https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-standard/pull/183.

The status is that the particle beam standard part of openPMD will become official when openPMD version 2.0 is finalized (hopefully in the next few months). Code for using this standard with HDF5 is already being used at SLAC and Cornell. The hope is, of course, that the more people who use this the more portable beam data files become between simulation programs. So collaborators are always welcome.

rdemaria commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the information. We are certainly open to support another format in case a user is willing to write the implementation.