From 91692cccad593d6618ed17ebdaf6b075f8877709 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dana Robinson Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:14:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add info for filters 257 and 258 Requested by Mark Miller at LLNL --- docs/RegisteredFilterPlugins.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/RegisteredFilterPlugins.md b/docs/RegisteredFilterPlugins.md index 449ef5e3..acfd3991 100644 --- a/docs/RegisteredFilterPlugins.md +++ b/docs/RegisteredFilterPlugins.md @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ List of Filters Registered with The HDF Group --------------------------------------------- |Filter |Identifier Name |Short Description| |--------|----------------|---------------------| +|257 |hzip |hzip compression used in Silo| +|258 |fpzip |Duplicate of 32014 (fpzip, below)| |305 |LZO |LZO lossless compression used by PyTables| |307 |BZIP2 |BZIP2 lossless compression used by PyTables| |32000 |LZF |LZF lossless compression used by H5Py project| @@ -58,6 +60,25 @@ List of Filters Registered with The HDF Group ##
The Filters
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hzip Filter

+ +#### Filter ID: 257 + +#### Filter Description: +hzip is a compression algorithm for lossless compression of structured and unstructured meshes composed of cells with hypercube topology. + +#### Filter Information: +hzip was written by Peter Lindstrom at LLNL, and is based on the algorithm described in the following paper: + +Peter Lindstrom and Martin Isenburg, "Lossless Compression of Hexahedral Meshes," IEEE Data Compression Conference, March 2008, 192-201. + +https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/hzip + +#### Contact Information: +Mark Miller +Email: miller86 at llnl dot gov + +##

LZO Filter

#### Filter ID: 305 @@ -375,11 +396,13 @@ Email: pl at llnl dot gov

fpzip

-#### Filter ID: 32014 +#### Filter ID: 32014 (and 258) #### Filter Description: fpzip is a library for lossless or lossy compression of 2D or 3D floating-point scalar fields. Although written in C++, fpzip has a C interface. fpzip was developed by Peter Lindstrom at LLNL. +Filter number 258 appeared in the Silo headers, but may not have been used in actual HDF5 files. + #### Filter Information: For more information see: http://computation.llnl.gov/projects/floating-point-compression/