Szip

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

Legacy versions	Supported versions	New versions
	2.1

Environment modules

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

License information

szip license

Links

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

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