[netcdfgroup] Adding complex numbers and 16-bit floats to HDF5

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Adding complex numbers and 16-bit floats to HDF5
• From: Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <dave.allured@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 09:21:27 -0700

The HDF5 Group is proposing to add new built-in data types to HDF5,
including complex numbers, 16-bit floats, and boolean.  They are requesting
community feedback.  Please see the attached message for introduction,
community forum link, and a zoom meeting later today on this topic.

It is likely that these data types will be added to netCDF-4 after they
become available in HDF5.  See a related netCDF discussion at
https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/discussions/2652 .  I believe these new
data types will be highly beneficial for a wide variety of applications.

Dave Allured
NOAA/PSL/CIRES/University of Colorado


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Lori Cooper via HDF Forum <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Subject: [HDF Forum] [News and Announcements from The HDF Group] Adding
support for 16-bit floating point and complex number datatypes to HDF5 -
Call the Doctor 2/6/24

Lori Cooper <https://forum.hdfgroup.org/u/lori.cooper> lori.cooper The HDF
Group Staff
February 5
Adding support for 16-bit floating point and complex number datatypes to
HDF5
Call the Doctor - February 6, 2024

For this week’s Call the Doctor, The HDF Group’s Jordan Henderson (
@jhenderson <https://forum.hdfgroup.org/u/jhenderson>), author of the Adding
support for 16-bit floating point and complex number datatypes to HDF5 RFC
<https://forum.hdfgroup.org/uploads/short-url/eBgofwq0ph41Vp9j35tQREsrEfz.pdf>,
will briefly talk through that RFC and again solicit community feedback on
the concept and proposal.

Also, see the discussion on this forum post: HDF5 RFC: Adding support for
16-bit floating point and Complex number datatypes to HDF5
<https://forum.hdfgroup.org/t/hdf5-rfc-adding-support-for-16-bit-floating-point-and-complex-number-datatypes-to-hdf5/11975>

To join, just jump on the zoom:
Launch Meeting - Zoom <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/98286880081>
February 6, 2024,12:20 p.m. central time US/Canada