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A mesh and field I/O library and scientific database
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Silo is a library for reading and writing a wide variety of scientific
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data to binary, disk files. The files Silo produces and the data within
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them can be easily shared and exchanged between wholly independently
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developed applications running on disparate computing platforms.
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Consequently, Silo facilitates the development of general purpose tools
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for processing scientific data. One of the more popular tools that process
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Silo data files is the VisIt visualization tool.
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Silo supports gridless (point) meshes, structured meshes, unstructured-zoo
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and unstructured-arbitrary-polyhedral meshes, block structured AMR meshes,
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constructive solid geometry (CSG) meshes, piecewise-constant (e.g.
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zone-centered) and piecewise-linear (e.g. node-centered) variables defined
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on the node, edge, face or volume elements of meshes as well as the
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decomposition of meshes into arbitrary subset hierarchies including
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materials and mixing materials. In addition, Silo supports a wide variety
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of other useful objects to address various scientific computing
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application needs.Although the Silo library is a serial library, it has
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some key features which enable it to be applied quite effectively and
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scalably in parallel.
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WWW: https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo/
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