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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>sci@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Science Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| Common Data Format (CDF) is a conceptual data abstraction for storing |
| multi-dimensional data sets. The basic component of CDF is a software |
| programming interface that is a device independent view of the CDF data |
| model. The application developer is insulated from the actual physical |
| file format for reasons of conceptual simplicity, device independence, |
| and future expandability. CDF files created on any given platform can |
| be transported to any other platform on to which CDF is ported and used |
| with any CDF tools or layered applications. A more detailed introduction |
| to CDF can be found in the CDF User's Guide. |
| A comparison between CDF, netCDF, HDF and HDF5 is available at |
| http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/FAQ.html. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |