Simple Data Format

Simple Data Format (SDF) is a platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large multi-dimensional arrays. It was written in 2007 by George H. Fisher, a researcher at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley, and released under the GNU General Public License.

See also

• FITS
• HDF5
• CSV
• List of file formats
• NetCDF

External links

• The Simple Data Format Manifesto
• A .pdf Introduction to SDF
• SDF packages, each release as a tarball