A NOAA GRIB user's guide and an NCAR GRIB user's guide are available as well as GRIB software for various platforms. There is also an NCAR GRIB software repository. Several GRIB manipulation and translation programs can be found at W. Grib's Web site. A format for portable graphics, as you might surmise from the name. It can be used as a standard, portable programming interface to produce simulation code restart files, link files, and files for the graphic output programs that help to visualize simulation results.
Some SILO documentation is also available.
See also another Mesh-TV FTP site . The available source code is currently set to compile on Cray, Sun, SGI and HP platforms, although a quick perusal of it shows that it probably wouldn't be difficult to port to other platforms. The Hierarchical Data Format is a multi-object file format that facilitates the transfer of various types of data between machines and operating systems. It allows self-definitions of data content and is easily extensible for future enhancements or compatibility with other standard formats. The latest version of HDF supports the complete netCDF interface.