Szip

Please note that this application page is referring to the old CentOS software stack which is obsolete and does not work any more with the new Ubuntu setup. You can find an overview on the Ubuntu software stack on this wiki page.

Category

Development, Library, Compression

Description

Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data, has been provided with HDF software products as of HDF5 Release 1.6.0 and HDF4 Release 2.0. Szip is an implementation of the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm. The Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has adopted the extended-Rice algorithm for international standards for space applications.

Available versions (Euler, old software stack)

Legacy versions	Supported versions	New versions
	2.1

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Environment modules (Euler, old software stack)

Version	Module load command	Additional modules loaded automatically
2.1	module load gcc/4.8.2 szip/2.1

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

License information

szip license

Links

https://support.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/simplezip/?source=directory