| Title: | Lossless Compression of High-volume Numerical Data from Simulations. |
| Authors: | Vadim Engelson, Peter Fritzson, and Dag Fritzson |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science ISSN 1401-9841 |
| Issue: | Vol. 5 (2000): nr 011 |
| URL: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ea/cis/2000/011/ |
| Abstract: | Applications in scientific computing operate with high-volume numerical data and the occupied space should be reduced. Traditional compression algorithms cannot provide sufficient compression ratio for such kinds of data. We propose a lossless algorithm of delta-compression (a variant of predictive coding) that packs the higher-order differences between adjacent data elements. The algorithm takes into account varying domain (typically, time) steps. The algorithm is simple, it has high performance and delivers a high compression ratio for smoothly changing data. Both lossless and lossy variants of the algorithm can be used. The algorithm has been successfully applied to the output from a simulation application that uses a solver of ordinary differential equations. |
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Original publication 2000-12-05 |
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