On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Jesse Perla wrote:
James C. Sutherland <James.Sutherland <at> utah.edu> writes:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Herring <dherring <at> ll.mit.edu> wrote:Isn't matlab capable of reading hdf5 files? That might be a reasonable target for boost::serialization.
This was discussed briefly on the ublas list. Someone also told us that boost::serialization is really not meant for proprietary file formats.
While boost::serialization prefers its own file format, HDF5 is a very open standard. "The HDF5 data model, file format, API, library, and tools are open and distributed without charge." http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/whatishdf5.html I understand that a full C++ object to HDF5 mapping is hard (I looked at the problem myself), but the format should not be dismissed lightly. In fact, I mentioned it as a possible format for matlab explicitly because it is a growing standard in scientific computing, whereas other matlab interfaces are vendor-specific. See for example http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5_tools/ The recent discussion about boost::mpi reawakened my interest in such a possibility... boost::hdf5? A full binding would be hard; but a binding sufficient for one or two datatype might not be. - Daniel