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GANDALF (Graphical Astrophysics code for N-body Dynamics And Lagrangian Fluids)
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Add additional file formats #30

Closed dhubber closed 7 years ago

dhubber commented 8 years ago

Add additional file formats to gandalf, in particular dragon and hdf5 formats

giovanni-rosotti commented 8 years ago

The hdf5 format needs some discussion. hdf5 is only a container, not a format (think to it like a filesystem with folders and files) - we need to decide how we want to structure the data inside. A simple possibility could be a folder (group in hdf5 terminology) for each particle type, and inside each group a file for each array (or can you dump directly structs?). Header information can go in the root folder presumably

giovanni-rosotti commented 7 years ago

There is already a separate issue for HDF5, so I'm closing this. I don't think dragon is important enough to justify the time needed, unless a user really needs it