2016-10-28 13:12 GMT+02:00 Elvis Stansvik <[email protected]>: > 2016-10-28 1:53 GMT+02:00 Miller, Mark C. <[email protected]>: >> Hi All, >> >> Just wanted to mention a new HDF5 floating point compression plugin >> available on github... >> >> https://github.com/LLNL/H5Z-ZFP >> >> This plugin will come embedded in the next release of the Silo library as >> well. > > Thanks for the pointer. That's very interesting. I had not heard about > ZFP before. The ability to set a bound on the error in the lossless > case seems very useful.
Here I meant the lossy case of course.. :) Elvis > > Do you know if there has been any comparative benchmarks of ZFP > against other compressors? > > After some basic benchmarking, we recently settled on Blosc_LZ4HC at > level 4 for our datasets (3D float tomography data), but maybe it > would be worthwhile to look at ZFP as well.. > > Best regards, > Elvis > >> >> -- >> Mark C. Miller, LLNL >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. >> [email protected] >> http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
