Free netcdf 3.6.2 software for linux

NetCDF is a format developed at Unidata that was inspired by the CDF format from NASA.
NetCDF stands for "Network Common Data Form" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.
Main features:
- All features of netCDF 3.6
- Large file support (> 2 GB data files)
- Use of HDF5 for storage
- Backward file-format compatibility
- Backward API compatibility
- Parallel I/O
- Multiple unlimited dimensions
- Additional Data Types
- Hierarchical Grouping of Data
- Bit packing
- Compression and other filters
- Revised documentation
- Examples
- Distribution with both netCDF and HDF5 packages
- (Unicode/ASCII) String data type
- Anonymous dimensions
- Support for compound data types, including nested compound types
- User-defined data type
- Upgrades to ncgen/ncdump/CDL to reflect new features
- NcML support for ncgen/ncdump
- F90 interface
- C++ interface
- Demonstrable performance gains in modeling contexts on advanced architectures
- HDF5 file driver support
Whats New in 4.0 Alpha 11 Development Release:
- Enum type added.
- NetCDF-4 verified support of common data model.
- ncdump support new features and NcML.
- No netCDF-4 artifacts in file.
- Uses HDF5 creation order information.
- NetCDF-4 documentation complete.
Whats New in 3.6.2 Stable Release:
- Support for shared libraries was added.
- Major documentation additions were done.
- Speedups were made on little-endian machines.
- Minor bugs were fixed.

ccGo project allows you to play GO with gnuGo on your computer or with other players on the IGS on the internet.
Main features:
- low bandwidth IGS client (works fine in quiet mode)
- GMP support, to play go with gnugo
- SGF Go game record editor, works with format version FF4
- written in C++ using gtkmm-2.0
- picture board and stone images support
- auto detect and display Chinese, Japanese characters

OPeNDAP is a client/server system for making local data accessible to remote locations without regard to the local or remote storage format, architecture, or environment.
BES is a new, high-performance back-end server software framework that allows data providers more flexibility in providing end users views of their data. The current OPeNDAP data objects (DAS, DDS, and DataDDS) are still supported, but now data providers can add new data views, provide new functionality, and new features to their end users through the BES modular design. Providers can add new data handlers, new data objects/views, the ability to define views with constraints and aggregation, the ability to add reporting mechanisms, initialization hooks, and more.
OPeNDAP provides the tools to build these new modules that can then be dynamically loaded into the BES.
As an example, the CedarWEB project at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) provides four new data views (info, tab, flat, and stream), authentication, a reporting class to keep track of user data access, MySQL database access of file information (data containers), and more.
OPeNDAP also has available ready to load modules for netcdf, cdf, fits, freeform, hdf4, hdf5 and jgofs. Only a few of these are supported and/or in the current source-only release.
If you are looking for the OPeNDAP 4 Data Server (aka Hyrax) software, the Hyrax page provides a single place where each of the components of Hyrax can be downloaded and also provides information about which versions work together to properly support Hyraxs various features.
Enhancements:
- This version of the BES fixes a problem where some large 32-bit floating point arrays could trigger an early end to data transmission

KSimus project is a KDE tool for simulation and visualization of technical processes.
It is also useful for education and experiments in the scope of logical and automatic control circuits.
The main feature of KSimus is the use of component libraries (packages) which makes extending KSimus easy for developers.
Main features:
- Additional components can be distribute with separate packages.
- KSimus knows two kinds of notations:
- The Schematic shows all components.
- The User Interface shows only the UI components.
- The connections between the components are routed automatically.
- The UI components can contain and manage QT and KDE widgets.
- KSimus supports user defined modules.
- KSimus has some debug features.
- KSimus is GPL.
Enhancements:
- Fix: One more bug with Impicit Converters and Modules. Thanks Tilli for the bug report!
- Fix: Copy/Past-Bug in KDE3 version
- Fix: Misspellings in german translation
- Fix: Some ImpicitConverter was delete during circuit setup

libffi is a library that really only provides the lowest, machine dependent layer of a fully featured foreign function interface.

A layer must exist above libffi that handles type conversions for values passed between the two languages. ffi stands for Foreign Function Interface.

A foreign function interface is the popular name for the interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language.

Libffi has been ported to:

SunOS 4.1.3 & Solaris 2.x (Sparc v8)
Irix 5.3 & 6.2 (System V/o32 & n32)
Intel x86 - Linux (System V ABI)
Alpha Linux and OSF/1
m68k - Linux (System V ABI)
PowerPC - Linux (System V ABI)
ARM - Linux (System V ABI)

PlotDrop is designed for quick simple visualisation of 2D data series. It is not intended to encompass anywhere near the full capabilities of GNUPlot.

PlotDrop software is made to be used in tandem with an external filesystem browser such as GNOMEs Nautilus or KDEs Konqueror.
Files containing data are added by dragging them from the browser to the file list.

Data files should be simple flat data of the kind preferred by GNUPlot, like

1.0 3.6
2.0 5.2
4.0 5.1

The series of a datafile to plot is set as an integer in the plot list. To plot more than one series simply add a file more than once and set a different series number on each entry.

A free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler (ie. runs IDL programs). IDL is a registered trademark of Research Systems Inc.
Full syntax compatibility with IDL 6.0
ALL IDL language elements are supported, including:
- Objects,
- Pointers,
- Structs,
- Arrays,
- System variables,
- Common blocks,
- Assoc variables,
- All operators,
- All datatypes,
- _EXTRA, _STRICT_EXTRA and _REF_EXTRA keywords...
The file input output system is fully implemented
(Exception: For formatted I/O the C() sub-codes are not supported yet)
netCDF files are fully supported.
HDF files are partially supported.
Basic support for HDF5 files.
Overall more than 240 library routines are implemented. For a sorted list enter HELP,/LIB at the command prompt and look for library routines written in GDL in the src/pro subdirectory.
The WRITEFITS procedure and the READFITS function from the IDL Astronomy Users Library compile and run under GDL.
Graphical output is partially implemented. The PLOT, OPLOT, PLOTS, XYOUTS and TV commands (along with WINDOW, WDELETE, SET_PLOT, WSET, TVLCT) work (important keywords, some !P system variable tags and multi-plots are supported) for X windows and postscript output.
GDL has an interface to python.
No GUI support (widgets) is implemented so far.
GDL is free software licensed under the GPL

Hierarchical Data Format is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data.
HDF5 can store two primary objects: datasets and groups. A dataset is essentially a multidimensional array of data elements, and a group is a structure for organizing objects in an HDF5 file. Using these two basic objects, one can create and store almost any kind of scientific data structure, such as images, arrays of vectors, and structured and unstructured grids. You can also mix and match them in HDF5 files according to your needs.
Efficient storage and I/O.
HDF5 was created to address the data management needs of scientists and engineers working in high performance, data intensive computing environments. As a result, the HDF5 library and format emphasize storage and I/O efficiency. For instance, the HDF5 format can accommodate data in a variety of ways, such as compressed or chunked. And the library is tuned and adapted to read and write data efficiently on parallel computing systems.
Software.
NCSA maintains a suite of free, open source software, including the HDF5 I/O library and several utilities. The HDF5 user community also develops and contributes software, much of it freely available. Unlike HDF4, there is little commercial support for HDF5 at this time, but we are successfully working with vendors to change this.
Emphasis on standards.
Data can be stored in HDF5 in an endless variety of ways, so it is important for communities of users to standardize on how their data is to be organized in HDF5. This makes it possible to share data easily, and also to build and share tools for accessing and analyzing data stored in HDF5. The NCSA HDF team works with users to encourage them to organize HDF5 files in standard ways.
Large and varied user community.
HDF5 users range across a variety of engineering and scientific fields, and even some non-technical fields. Data stored in HDF5 is used for a wide range of applications, from computational fluid dynamics to film making.
Main features:
- Parallel HDF5 - Information on installing and using Parallel HDF5
- SZIP Compression - Information about SZIP Compression in HDF5
- Thread Safe HDF5 - Information on thread-safe capabilities of HDF5 and how to install
- The High Level HDF5 APIs, previously distributed separately, are now distributed as part of the main HDF5 Library:
- High Level HDF5 APIs - Information on installing and using the High Level HDF5 APIs
Applications:
- HDF Java Products - HDF4/HDF5 Java interfaces and viewer, HDFView.
- HDF Web-browser Plug-in - The HDF Web-browser plug-in is a windowed browser plug-in that is launched from a web browser to display HDF4 and HDF5 files.
- netCDF-4 - The NCSA and NetCDF groups are collaborating on a version of NetCDF built on top of HDF5.
- HDF5 XML Information Page - DTD and tools for using HDF5 with XML
- HDF5 WRF I/O Module - I/O module that reads HDF5 datasets for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
- HDF5 Mesh API (prototype) - API for storing and retrieving structured and unstructured mesh data
Enhancements:
- The default Fortran was switched to G95 when using GCC.
- The autoconf build tools were updated. Fortran interfaces were added for the Image, Table, and Lite APIs.
- A Dimension Scale API (H5DS) was added.
- FreeBSD is now supported on AMD64 with GNU C and Fortran compilers.
- Support for sequential and parallel libraries was added for Intel 64 Linux clusters.
- Several bugs with writing fill values for datasets that have a variable-length datatype or component datatype were fixed.