# What is a CITATION.cff file?
# See https://citation-file-format.github.io/

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: OTF2 - The Open Trace Format Version 2
abstract: >-
  The Open Trace Format 2 is a highly scalable, memory efficient event
  trace data format plus support library. It is the standard trace format
  for Scalasca, Vampir, and Tau and is open for other tools.
message: >-
  If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from
  this file.
type: software
identifiers:
  - description: "The concept DOI of this software"
    type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.1240851
url: 'https://score-p.org'
repository-artifact: 'https://perftools.pages.jsc.fz-juelich.de/cicd/otf2/'
keywords:
  - Performance measurement
  - Instrumentation
  - Sampling
  - Tracing
  - File Format
  - Event Trace
license: BSD-3-Clause
contact:
  - email: support@score-p.org
references:
  - title: >-
      Open Trace Format 2: The Next Generation of Scalable Trace Formats
      and Support Libraries
    type: conference-paper
    authors:
     - name: Eschweiler et al.
    doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-041-3-481
# Authors of OTF2, in chronological order:
authors:
  - family-names: Eschweiler
    given-names: Dominic
    email: eschweiler@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
  - family-names: Wagner
    given-names: Michael
    email: michael.wagner@zih.tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5767-1716
  - family-names: Feld
    given-names: Christian
    email: c.feld@fz-juelich.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7685-3497
  - family-names: Tschüter
    given-names: Ronny
    email: ronny.tschueter@dlr.de
  - family-names: Wesarg
    given-names: Bert
    email: bert.wesarg@tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2647-0628
  - family-names: Schmidl
    given-names: Dirk
    email: schmidl@rz.rwth-aachen.de
  - family-names: Knüpfer
    given-names: Andreas
    email: andreas.knuepfer@zih.tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-397X
  - family-names: Geimer
    given-names: Markus
    email: m.geimer@fz-juelich.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5575-8287
  - family-names: Spazier
    given-names: Johannes
    email: johannes.spazier@tu-dresden.de
  - family-names: Oleynik
    given-names: Yury
    email: oleynik@in.tum.de
  - family-names: Biersdorff
    given-names: Scott
    email: scottb@cs.uoregon.edu
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4210-7335
  - family-names: Domke
    given-names: Jens
    email: jens.domke@tu-dresden.de
  - family-names: Grötzsch
    given-names: André
    email: andre.groetzsch@tu-dresden.de
  - family-names: Hermanns
    given-names: Marc-André
    email: hermanns@itc.rwth-aachen.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3895-7791
  - family-names: Petkov
    given-names: Ventsislav
    email: petkovve@in.tum.de
  - family-names: Ziegenbalg
    given-names: Johannes
    email: johannes.ziegenbalg@zih.tu-dresden.de
  - family-names: Knobloch
    given-names: Michael
    email: m.knobloch@fz-juelich.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3116-4393
  - family-names: Oeste
    given-names: Sebastian
    email: sebastian.oeste@tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3540-4657
  - family-names: Naujoks
    given-names: Benjamin
    email: benjamin.naujoks@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
  - family-names: Ilsche
    given-names: Thomas
    email: thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5437-3887
  - family-names: Williams
    given-names: Bill
    email: william.williams@tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5806-3176
  - family-names: Reuter
    given-names: Jan André
    email: j.reuter@fz-juelich.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1219-0310
  - family-names: Knespel
    given-names: Maximilian
    email: maximilian.knespel@tu-dresden.de
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9568-3075
  - family-names: Bielert
    given-names: Mario
    email: mario.bielert@tu-dresden.de
commit: 
date-released: 2026-05-28
version: 3.2
