nasa-ames.ppt

Presentation Overview What is CGNS ? History of CGNS CGNS Steering Committee ISO-STEP Standard HDF5 Interface User Base CGNS Main Features Current Release (Version 2.3) Extensions (Version 2.4 beta) CGNS Tools Detailed Node Descriptions Example Conclusions What is CGNS ? CFD General Notation System Principal target is the data normally associated with compressible viscous flow (i.e. Navier-Stokes) Applicable to computational field physics in general with augmentation of the data definitions and storage conventions Objectives Provide a general, portable and extensible standard for the storing and retrieval of CFD analysis data Offer seamless communication of CFD analysis data between sites, applications and system architectures Eliminate the overhead costs due to file translation and multiplicity of data sets in various formats Provide free, open software – GNU Lesser General Public License What is CGNS ? Advanced Data Format (ADF) Software that performs the I/O operations Directed graph based on a single data structure (the ADF node) Defines how data is organized in the storage media. Standard Interface Data Structures (SIDS) Collection of conventions and definitions that defines the intellectual content of CFD-related data. Independent of the physical file format SIDS to ADF Mapping Defines how the SIDS is represented in ADF CGNS Mid-Level Library (MLL) High level Application Programming Interface (API) which conforms closely to the SIDS Built on top of ADF and does not perform any direct I/O operation History of CGNS 1994-1995: Series of meetings between Boeing and NASA addressing means of improving technology transfer from NASA to Industry: The main impediment to technology transfer is the disparity of file formats. 1995-1998: Development of the CGNS System (SIDS, ADF) at Boeing Seattle, under NASA Contract with participation from: Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group, Seattle NASA Ames/Langley/Lewis Research Centers Boeing St-Louis (former McDonnell Douglas Corpo