Requirements for Scientific Computing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• “Scientific” data

  • A variety of data types and structures
  • Large data structures
  • Metadata in a variety of forms

• Portability

  • I/O library works on many machines
  • Data easily moved from machine to machine

• Fast I/O

• Efficient storage

• Extensibility

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