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MPB(1)							    MIT Photonic-Bands Package							    MPB(1)

NAME

       mpb - compute eigenmodes of periodic dielectric structures

SYNOPSIS

       mpb [OPTION]... [DEFINITION]... [CTLFILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       MIT  Photonic  Bands  (MPB)  is	a free program to compute the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic
       dielectric structures, and is applicable both to photonic crystals (photonic band-gap materials) and a wide range of  other  optical  prob-
       lems. Its features include: fully-vectorial, 3D computations; a flexible user-interface based upon the GNU Guile scripting language; output
       in HDF format; and iterative, targeted eigensolver methods to address very large problems by solving for only a few states near a specified
       frequency.

       More information on MPB, including a detailed manual, can be found online at the MPB home page: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/

       A typical invocation of MPB looks like:

	   mpb foo.ctl >& foo.out

       This  causes MPB to process the control file foo.ctl and redirect its output to foo.out.  (One typically redirects output to a file, as the
       output is verbose and contains a number of comma-delimited datasets that one can extract by grepping.)

       You can also use MPB in an interactive mode, in which you can type in MPB commands (in Scheme/Guile) and  immediately  see  their  results.
       Interactive  mode  is  entered  when you invoke mpb with no control files, or if your control files don't contain any run statements (which
       disable interactive mode), or if the last control file ends by setting (set! interactive? true) in which case interactive mode  is  entered
       after the control files execute.

       Another	useful	feature is that you can alter parameters in your control files from the command line, by including definitions of the form
       variable=value as arguments to mpb (before the control files).  This overrides the values of variables defined  with  define-param  in  the
       control file (including all of the predefined MPB input variables).

       Multiple control files and definitions are executed in sequence, in the order they are specified on the command line.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display help on the command-line options and usage.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version number and copyright info for mpb.

       -v, --verbose
	      Verbose output.

BUGS

       Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.

AUTHORS

       Written by Steven G. Johnson.  Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SEE ALSO

       mpb-split(1), mpb-data(1)

MPB
								 January 27, 2000							    MPB(1)

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H5FROMH4(1)							      h5utils							       H5FROMH4(1)

NAME

       h5fromh4 - convert HDF4 scientific datasets to an HDF5 file

SYNOPSIS

       h5fromh4 [OPTION]... [HDF4FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       h5fromh4  takes one or more files in HDF4 format and outputs files in HDF5 format containing the datasets from the HDF4 files.  (Currently,
       only a single dataset per HDF4 file is converted.)

       HDF4 and HDF5 are free, portable binary formats and supporting libraries developed by the National Center for  Supercomputing  Applications
       at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

       A  single  h5 file can contain multiple data sets; by default, h5fromh4 creates a dataset called "data", but this can be changed via the -d
       option, or by using the syntax HDF5FILE:DATASET with the -o option.  The -a option can be used to append new datasets to an  existing  HDF5
       file.   If the -o option is used and multiple HDF4 files are specified, all the HDF4 datasets are output into that HDF5 file with the input
       filenames (minus the ".hdf" suffix) used as the dataset names.

       The most basic usage is something like 'h5fromh4 foo.hdf', which will output a file foo.h5 containing the scientific dataset from foo.hdf.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display help on the command-line options and usage.

       -V     Print the version number and copyright info for h5fromh4.

       -v     Verbose output.

       -a     If the HDF5 output file already exists, append the data as a new dataset rather than overwriting the file  (the  default	behavior).
	      An existing dataset of the same name within the file is overwritten, however.

       -o file
	      Send  HDF5 output to file rather than to the input filename with .hdf replaced with .h5 (the default).  If multiple input files were
	      specified, this causes all input datasets to be stored in file (rather than in separate files), with the input filenames (minus  the
	      .hdf suffix) as the dataset names.

       -d name
	      Write  to  dataset  name	in  the  output; otherwise, the output dataset is called "data" by default.  Alternatively, use the syntax
	      HDF5FILE:DATASET with the -o option.

BUGS

       Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.

AUTHORS

       Written by Steven G. Johnson.  Copyright (c) 2005 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

h5utils 							   March 9, 2002						       H5FROMH4(1)
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