NCSA releases HDF, Image, and DataScope
Scientific computing can be a messy business. "We were constantly encountering problems of different computing platforms having different data formats," said Mike Folk, who has been with NCSA since 1988. "Scientists also wanted different types of data to all be mixed into a single file." NCSA HDF—a general file format for scientific data management, as well as software for analyzing and converting data—answered the call. Today,...
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