Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.7, targeted for May 2011. Last modified: 1 October 2010
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User's Guide HDF5 Application Developer's Guide HDF5 Reference Manual |
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This informal volume of technical notes is of interest to
those who develop and maintain the HDF5 library and
related, closely-coupled drivers.
These notes are not generally of interest to applications developers
and certainly not of interest to users.
(Some of these documents may be somewhat out of date as they were
working papers for the design process.)
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| Memory Management | A discussion of memory management issues in HDF5 | |
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Memory Management and
Free Lists | Notes regarding the implementation of free lists and memory management | |
| Heap Management | A discussion of the H5H heap management fuctions | |
| Raw Data Storage | A discussion of the storage of raw HDF5 data | |
| Virtual File Layer | A description of the HDF5 virtual file layer (VFL), a public API for the implementation of custom I/O drivers | |
| List of VFL Functions |
A list of the VFL functions, H5FD*
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| I/O Pipeline | A description of the raw data I/O pipeline | |
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Large Datasets on Small
Machines | A guide to accessing large datasets on small computers | |
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Relocating a File Data
Structure | A discussion of the issues involved in moving file data structures once they have been cached in memory | |
| Working with External Files | A guide to the use of multiple files with HDF5 | |
| Object Headers | A discussion of the H5O object header functions | |
| Symbol Table Caching Issues | A discussion of issues involving caching of object header messages in symbol table entries | |
| HDF4/HDF5 Compatibility | A discussion of compatibility issues between HDF4 and HDF5 | |
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Testing the Chunked Layout
of HDF5 | A white paper discussing the motivation to implement raw data chunking in the HDF5 library | |
| Library Maintenance | A discussion of HDF5 library maintenance issues | |
| Code Review | Code Review 1 and 2 | |
| Release Version Numbers | A description of HDF5 release version numbers | |
| Naming Schemes | A discussion of naming schemes for HDF5 library modules, functions, datatypes, etc. | |
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Thread Safe HDF5 Library
Implementation | A report on the implementation of a thread safe HDF5 library. | |
| Using HDF5 with OpenMP | A short report on using HDF5 with OpenMP. | |
| HDF5 Software Controls | Descriptions of the HDF5 knobs and controls, such as the environment variables and settings that control the functionality of the HDF5 libraries and tools. | |
| Daily Test Explained | An explanation of the Daily Testing for HDF software conducted. | |
| Test Review | Results of reviewing tests for API functions. | |
| Basic Performance Tools | A description of the three basic performance tools (chunk, iopipe, overhead). | |
| Variable-Length Datatype Info | Description of various aspects of using variable-length datatypes in HDF5. | |
| Reserved File Address Space | Description of HDF5's internal system for ensuring that files stay within their address space. | |
| Data Transform Report | Report of the Data Transform implementation. | |
| Automake Use Cases | Simple explanations of how to make some common changes to HDF5's Automake-generated Makefiles.am. | |
| Checksumming and Digitally Signing HDF5 Releases | Explanation of what MD5 checksums and PGP signatures are and why and how to apply them to HDF5 releases. | |
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User's Guide HDF5 Application Developer's Guide HDF5 Reference Manual |
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Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.7, targeted for May 2011. Last modified: 1 October 2010 |
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