Re: [Libmesh-devel] The parallel I/O problem

[John P. <pet...@cf...>]

Looks like it has an LGPL-like license
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html

I don't know if we want to depend on external libraries for core
functionality of libmesh though.  PETSc is enough of a headache...

Depending on the size of the source and complexity of the build process=
, we
could potentially distribute it in contrib/.

-John

Martin L=FCthi writes:
 > Hi
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 > Great work going on!
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 > Roy Stogner writes:
 >  > A parallel-friendly format (whether that means wacky multi-file
 >  > partitioning or just eliminating element blocks) is different eno=
ugh
 >  > to merit if not require a new file extension.
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 > Why not base new file format on HDF5/PHDF5. That library is extremly=

 > fast, versatile, and is designed for parallel I/O. And it is standar=
d.
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 > Just my 0.02
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 > Best, Martin