We have this request in our issues database and will try to address it as time and resources permit. We will also be happy to consider source contribution for this feature to speed-up the development.
Elena On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Dimitris Servis wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
