2.5.1. Data Structure¶
Data from execution of experiments ends up under the subdirectory data/
.
It is often convenient to let data/
be a softlink to a directory on a
dedicated disk system (e.g. a Luster file system on a cluster, or an external
disk drive on a workstation or laptop).
When using the default input file (input.nml
) data is stored directly
in data/
, while if using e.g. run.nml
, the data is stored in
data/run/
.
Metadata describing the snapshots is stored as namelists in files such as
data/params.nml
data/00000/snapshot.nml
data/00000/rank_00000_patches.nml
The binary data may, depending on I/O method, reside in files such as:
data/snapshots.dat
data/00000/snapshot.dat
data/00000/00000.dat