Issues concerning input, storage, output and sharing of scientific data. Machine-dependancy, endian-ness IEEE and so on.

Formats #

• netCDF __net__work __C__ommon __D__ata __F__ormat defines a machine-independant format for scientific data. From there, you can download a library written in C, with Fortran77, Fortran90, C, and C++ interfaces (others are available but not part of the standard library distribution).