3 \page med-file Notes on the MED file format
5 \section med-file-intro Introduction
7 The MED file format is a specialization of the HDF5 standard, and existed well before
8 MEDCoupling. Take a look at the
9 <a class="el" href="http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/">HDF5 Group website</a> for more details on HDF5 itself.
10 It focuses on (potentially) big amount of data, and the design philosophy was to facilitate a
13 The official documentation of the MED-file format is available on-line (in French) in
14 your SALOME installation at:
17 ${MEDFILE_ROOT_DIR}/share/doc/html/index.html
20 Remember that the term "MED-file" denotes both:
21 - a file format on disk (I/O)
22 - a comprehensive low level C library to read/write MED files (now with a Python wrapping)
23 and authored by Eric FAYOLLE (EdF R&D).
25 \section med-file-struct What does it look like?
27 The picture below shows an UML-like diagram of the MED file format.
28 We see for example that the mesh name is the unique key linking a \ref fields "field"
29 to its supporting \ref meshes "mesh".
31 \image html med-file-uml.png "Functional diagram of the MED file format"