Files

Similar to SEP3D (), the master file is still the standard SEP history file. The difference is that the history file will not have a pointer to the dataset (in=) and it will have an additional pointer to a text file (Distribution Format File (DFF)) describing the distribution pattern (dff=).

The distribution format file is made up of several parameters:

nsect

The number of sections the dataset is broken up into.

axis

The axis along which the data is distributed.

naxis_convert

The length of the axis that the data is distributed along.

pattern

The distribution pattern along the distributed axis. Right now two distribution patterns are defined, BLOCK and SPREAD. In the first option sequential elements along the first axis will belong to the same section. In the second option a given section will contain elements isect+k*nsect where isect is the section number, nsect is the number of sections, and k is the number of axis elements the section owns. One obvious future extension to the library is to handle more arbitrary distribution patterns.

tag_secti

The tag associated with section number i.

mach_secti

The machine in which section i was written.

The final set of files are the various tag_sect. Each tag_sect is a valid SEP3D dataset.