DRS Library and Utilities

The DRS (Data Retrieval and Storage) library and utilities support the scientific data format used at PCMDI. Developed to support high-volume multi-dimensional array output from general circulation models, DRS currently runs under Cray/Unicos, Sun/SunOS 4.1.3, Sun/Solaris 2.4, SGI Irix 5.4, IBM RS6000/AIX 3.2, DEC Alpha/OSF, and HP/HP-UX 9.0.

Notable features of the DRS system include:

support for multi-dimensional array variables
subsetting and data reordering operations
direct access I/O, access by coordinate ranges
machine-independent format
support for Cray native mode
C and Fortran APIs
drsed interactive data browser utility

DRS is freely available. DRS v2.11 source (400K)

This page was last modified November 1, 1995.
For questions or comments on DRS, contact Bob Drach (drach@llnl.gov)

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