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PSDF: Particle Stream Data Format for N-body simulations
New astronomy, v 17(5), pp 520-523
Jul 2012
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Abstract
► We present a data format for the output of individual-time step N-body simulations. ► The data format is based on YAML, a generic human-friendly data serialization format. ► We give links to software libraries in various languages that can process the format.
We present a data format for the output of general N-body simulations, allowing the presence of individual time steps. By specifying a standard, different N-body integrators and different visualization and analysis programs can all share the simulation data, independent of the type of programs used to produce the data. Our Particle Stream Data Format, PSDF, is specified in YAML, based on the same approach as XML but with a simpler syntax. Together with a specification of PSDF, we provide background and motivation, as well as specific examples in a variety of computer languages. We also offer a web site from which these examples can be retrieved, in order to make it easy to augment existing codes in order to give them the option to produce PSDF output.
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- Title
- PSDF: Particle Stream Data Format for N-body simulations
- Creators
- Will M. Farr - Northwestern UniversityJeff Ames - Institute for Advanced StudyPiet Hut - Institute for Advanced StudyJunichiro Makino - Tokyo Institute of TechnologySteve McMillan - Drexel UniversityTakayuki Muranushi - Kyoto UniversityKoichi Nakamura - University of TokyoKeigo Nitadori - University of TsukubaSimon Portegies Zwart - Leiden University
- Publication Details
- New astronomy, v 17(5), pp 520-523
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000302514000007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84858062640
- Other Identifier
- 991019170407704721
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