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The rapid expansion of computational capabilities and the ever-growing scale of modern HPC systems present formidable challenges in managing exascale scientific data. Faced with such vast datasets, traditional lossless compression…

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Rapidly increasing data sizes in scientific computing are the driving force behind the need for lossy compression. The main drawback of lossy data compression is the introduction of error. This paper explains why many error-bounded…

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The rapid growth of digital data has heightened the demand for efficient lossless compression methods. However, existing algorithms exhibit trade-offs: some achieve high compression ratios, others excel in encoding or decoding speed, and…

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