hdf images hdf images

HOME > NEWS

News

Latest Newsletter - #115 Published on July 28, 2010

Latest Official Release of HDF5:   5 1.8.5 - See Newsletter: 114
Latest Official Release of HDF5 1.6:   5 1.6.10 - See Newsletter: 109
Latest Official Release of HDF4:   4.2.5 - See Newsletter: 110
Latest Official Release of the HDF Java Products:   2.6.1 - See Newsletter: 111

Upcoming Events

HDF and HDF EOS Workshop XIV
September 28-30, 2010
Champaign, Illinois

The fourteenth annual HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop has been scheduled for September 28th-30th, 2010. This workshop will be held in the home city of The HDF Group, and offers a unique opportunity to work directly with developers and maintainers of HDF. The theme of the Workshop is Improving workflows that use HDF and HDF-EOS data. Please see the workshop web site for more details.

Past Events

Bulletins

July 29, 2010:
Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic Join Forces on ALEMBIC

Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) have collaborated to create ALEMBIC, an open source exchange format that aims to become the standard for exchanging animated computer graphics scenes between content creation software packages.

February 26, 2010:
Bulletin: HDF5 1.8 Corruption Problem

A corruption problem was found in HDF5 1.8, which affected releases 1.8.0 through 1.8.4. The problem was fixed in HDF5 1.8.4 Patch 1.

October 2, 2009:
Award-winning Sony Pictures Imageworks uses HDF5

Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winning visual effects and digital character animation unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, is launching an open source development program, which includes the Field3d technology.

Field3, a voxel data storage library, provides C++ classes that handle storage in memory, as well as a file format based on HDF5 that allows the C++ objects to easily be written to and read from disk.

May 8, 2009:
Latest HDF5 and HDF Group Podcast

Mike Folk and Quincey Koziol of The HDF Group speak about the HDF5 file API.
 

May 29, 2009:
RFC: Reporting of Non-Comparable Datasets by h5diff

A Request for Comments (RFC) on the handling of non-comparable datasets by h5diff has just been published. The HDF Group is soliciting feedback on this RFC.
 

March 3, 2009:
HDF5 Chunking Performance Improvement

A recent bug fix resulted in a significant improvement in chunking performance. This fix will be available in releases HDF5 1.6.9 and HDF5 1.8.3, due out in May, but the fix is in the latest snapshots.
 

January 14, 2009:
American Meteorological Society 89th Annual Meeting

Extended abstracts on work done by The HDF Group were presented at the 89th Annual AMS meeting:

    Investigation of using HDF5 Archival Information Packages (AIP) to store NASA ECS Data
    Using a friendly OPeNDAP client library to access HDF5 data

These abstracts can also be found on The HDF Group presentations page.
 

January 7, 2009:
HDF5 and netCDF-4 Tutorial @ 10th LCI Conference

The tutorial, HDF5 and netCDF-4: Two Solutions for Data Management Problems based on One File Format will be presented on March 9, 2009 at the 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing in Boulder,Colorado.


 

Archives

Archived Bulletins

Recent Newsletters:

All text Issues (Link to text issues on FTP Server.)

- - Last modified:July 28th 2010