During the summers of 2003 and 2002, I was working for Prof. John R. Cary as a computer programmer at the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies of the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. My task was to design and develop modules for the OpenDX package. That was a great experience. OpenDX was a great, reliable, fast and well-documented piece of software.
The package contains two OpenDX modules: ImportHDF5Field and ImportHDF5Species. The ImportHDF5Field module imports a field or a slab of a field from an HDF5 file. The field must be described on a regular grid, and the HDF5 file must have an appropriate structure. The ImportHDF5Species module imports from an HDF5 file particles which satisfy the user’s conditions. The HDF5 file must be of a special format.
My contributions to the package included:
designing and implementing C++ classes,
implementing the Autoconf/Automake structure of the package,
designing and implementing the OpenDX interfaces of the two modules,
writing the documentation.
This article is about the package:
I. Szcześniak, J. R. Cary, “dxhdf5: A Software Package for Importing HDF5 Physics Data into OpenDX,” Computer Physics Communications, vol. 164, issue 1-3, Elsevier, pp. 365-369, 2004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.048
https://irkos.org/pubs/dxhdf5.pdf