Purpose

Thorn IOHDF5Util provides common routines which can be used to implement Cactus I/O methods for input/output of Cactus variables in the HDF5 standard (Hierarchical Data Format Version 5).

Currently, IOHDF5Util is inherited by the IOHDF5 and IOStreamHDF5 I/O thorns which share its routines to implement their own I/O methods doing parallel HDF5 file I/O and online HDF5 data streaming.