c-blosc: A blocking, shuffling, and loss-less compression library

Contents

1. Overview of package
   1. General usage
2. Availability of package by cluster

Overview of package

General information about package

Package:	c-blosc
Description:	A blocking, shuffling, and loss-less compression library
For more information:	https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc
Categories:	DataCompression
License:	Unknown

General usage information

Blosc is a blocking, shuffling and lossless compression algorithm, and c-blosc is the C library implementing it.

The following environmental variables have been defined:

• \$CBLOSC_ROOT has been set to the root of the c-blosc installation
• \$CBLOSC_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
• \$CBLOSC_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

• -I\$CBLOSC_INCDIR

and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):

• -L\$CBLOSC_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,\$CBLOSC_LIBDIR

Available versions of the package c-blosc, by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package c-bloscon the different clusters.

Available versions of c-blosc on the Zaratab cluster

Available versions of c-blosc on the Zaratab cluster

Version	Module tags	CPU(s) optimized for	GPU ready?
1.17.0	c-blosc/1.17.0	zen	Y
1.21.0	c-blosc/1.21.0	zen2	Y
1.21.2	c-blosc/1.21.2	icelake, x86_64, zen2	Y

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