Announcing the ESIO library

I've just publicly released a scientific library called ESIO used to generate the results I've recently presented.  ESIO has been used broadly within my research group and I consider it production-ready. 

ESIO simplifies getting high throughput input and output of structured data sets using parallel HDF5. The library is written in C99 and may be used by C89 or C++ applications. A Fortran API built atop the F2003 standard ISO_C_BINDING is also available.  ESIO is LGPL software and is available from https://red.ices.utexas.edu/projects/esio/wiki.

In particular, ESIO provides:

• Distributed IO of 1D lines, 2D planes, and 3D fields of data
• Support for scalar-, complex-, and vector-valued data
• Single and double precision floating point storage
• A mechanism for storing both string and numeric metadata
• Support for contiguous and strided in-memory data
• Support to simplify writing restart file sequences
• A handy esio_bench utility for performance benchmarking
• A comprehensive regression suite

I am long, long overdue on creating a paper introducing ESIO.