[Carpet] Lower-dimensional HDF5 output?

[Ulrich Sperhake]

Hi Thomas,

> Thanks for your comments, Uli ! I was already afraid that my reply
> http://lists.carpetcode.org/archives/developers/2006-August/001839.html was
> too conservative and drowned any further discussion. That wasn't my intension.

My reply got stuck for a bit of time, I guess, since I immediately got 
an automatic reply saying something like "your mail will not be processed 
until approved by the owner of the mailing list". No problem, but I'd 
guess others may have had the same experience.

> Let me therefore ask again: Has the overhead of outputting files in Carpet
> runs really gotten an issue ? Are people aware of the already existing
> possibilities to reduce the amount of output (eg. by changing the output
> precision, even for individual variables) and the number of output files
> (one_file_per_group)?

I am using the precision, but have not been aware of the option of having 
various variables in one file.

> Should the Carpet ASCII output post-processing tools be
> better advertised and made more widely known to users ?

That would be good, I think.

> Should there be more
> documentation (eg. a Carpet thornguide) available on the webserver ?

Documentation is always great, but I have not had a situation 
recently where I had been looking for certain documentation
and not been able to get the info.

Thank you for taking care of all this,

Uli

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