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C++ & Python API for Scientific I/O with openPMD
Huebl, Axel;
Poeschel, Franz;
Koller, Fabian;
Gu, Junmin
Other(s)
Fortmann-Grote, Carsten;
Stańczak, Dominik;
Amundson, James;
Donnelly, Ray;
Widera, René;
Zenker, Erik;
Bastrakov, Sergei;
Lehe, Rémi;
Amorim, Lígia Diana;
Bastrakova, Kseniia;
Pausch, Richard;
Ordyna, Paweł;
Ganyushin, Dmitry;
Kirkham, John;
Schnetter, Erik;
Bez, Jean Luca;
Gruber, Bernhard Manfred;
Schild, Nils
openPMD is an open metadata format for open data workflows in open science. This library provides a common high-level API for openPMD writing and reading. It provides a common interface to I/O libraries and file formats such as HDF5 and ADIOS. Where supported, openPMD-api implements both serial and MPI parallel I/O capabilities.
Supported by the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of two U.S. Department of Energy organizations (Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration). Supported by the CAMPA collaboration, a project of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of High Energy Physics, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. Previously supported by the Consortium for Advanced Modeling of Particles Accelerators (CAMPA), funded by the U.S. DOE Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was partially funded by the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), which is financed by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the Saxon Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK) with tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
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- Publication date:
- June 23, 2026
- DOI:
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- Keyword(s):
- openPMD Open Science Open Data HDF5 ADIOS data MPI HPC research file-format file-handling
- Grants:
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European Commission:
- EUCALL - European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light Sources (654220)
- Related identifiers:
- Cited by:
10.5281/zenodo.1167843, 10.5281/zenodo.1069534, 10.5281/zenodo.33624 - Communities:
- License (for files):
- GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only