
Chapter 21
Silo: A General-Purpose API and
Scientific Database
Mark Miller
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
21.1 Canonical Use Case: ALE3D Restart and VisIt Visualization
Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
21.2 Software, Hardware, and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
21.3 MIF and SSF Scalable I/O Paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
21.4 Successes with HDF5 as Middleware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
21.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .