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1. Hist16 - the same as Igor's compressor, but does not use multi-threading  - slow
2. HistN - developed by Matt, uses 16-bit and 8,7,6...-bit words, compression factor HistN upto ~2.

SZ compressor from Argonne

References

• Using compression in HDF5
• Szip Compression in HDF
• Third-party compression filters
• HDF5 Tutorial
• HDF5 Software Documentation
• Using HDF5 filters
• HDF5 Data Compression Demystified
• gzip - CLI, zlib - API
• Entropy (information_theory)
• Dictionary compression
• Python and HDF5
• LibLZF
• SZ compressor (sz-1.4-user-guide.pdf) Authors: Sheng Di, Dingwen Tao, supervisor: Franck Cappello
• 2013-04-17-igor-pyana_xtc_decompression_status.pdf, psdmrepo