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Latest Newsletter - #111 Published on March 5, 2010

Latest Official Release of HDF5:   5 1.8.4 Patch 1 - See Newsletter: 110
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

HDF5 Tutorial @ LCI Conference
March 8, 2010

The tutorial, Modeling and Visualizing Big and Complex Data: A Tutorial on HDF5 and an Extended Example Based on F5, will be presented in Pittsburgh at the 11th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing on March 8, 2010.

Past Events

Bulletins

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.


 

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