More Info

• Silo GitHub Repository
• Silo API Reference Manual
• VisIt’s Silo Tutoriol
• Silo Block-Based Virtual File Driver (VFD) for Dawn design outline and performance assessement.
• Some History
  • A brief history
  • From XFiles to SAF: The early pedigree of HDF5 (video / slides)
• Research Computing & Engineering (RCE) Discussion about Silo (2009)
• Related technologies (Arrays and other (regularized) data structure Models)
  • PDBLib
  • HDF5
  • netCDF
• Related technologies (Mesh and Field Models)
  • ExodusII (implemented on top of netCDF, like Silo on PDBLib or HDF5)
  • LibMESH
  • CGNS
  • netCDF - regularized
  • Conduit / Blueprint (slides)
  • TSTT / ITAPS
• Advanced Mathematical Abstractions
  • Vector Bundle Data Model (D. Butler, 1992)
  • Fiber Bundle Data Model (D. Butler, 2003)
  • Sheaf Data Model (D. Butler, 2012)
  • The Sets and Fields (SAF) Data Model and API
    • A simplified but scalable, parallel API for Fiber Bundles
  • Geometric Algebraic Types in HDF5