Hi Nicholas No :)
2010/2/16, Nicholas Yue <[email protected]>: > Dimitris Servis wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> my next attempt with the half precision and HDF5 is to make it >> possible to convert data from and to half precision but also keeping a >> scale factor. Data that can normally be represented with half >> precision can be up to 65504 (the maximum representable value). If the >> original data is larger than that, it would make sense to keep a scale >> factor or at least the order of magnitude before scaling. Any ideas on >> optimal ways to do that with HDF5? Should I just extract a reasonable >> order of magnitude and keep it as an attribute? I looked a bit at the >> scaling filters but they seem to suffer by exactly the same problems! > Will all this half precision work become part of the standard HDF5 > distribution? > > In the past, I have asked about half precision (binary16 in IEEE > 754-2008) road map for HDF5 and got the indication it may be worked on > in future so I am not sure if this is the same work. > > Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org > _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
