Cactus Code Thorn IOHDF5
Authors    : Thomas Radke
CVS info   : $Header$
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1. Purpose of the thorn

This thorn does output of 2D and 3D variables in HDF5 format.

It also provides checkpointing/recovery functionality -
you can create HDF5 checkpoint files and recover from them.

The IO methods "IOHDF5_2D" and "IOHDF5_3D" are registered
which can be called by other thorns via CCTK_OutputVarAsByMethod()
to output a variable without specifying it in the parameter file.


2. Additional information

Currently only 3D output is implemented.

Fore more information on HDF5 see http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu.