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April 2, 2013: "The Earth Observer" Article Covers HDF and HDF-EOS Earth Science Data Formats, HDF-EOS Website

The March-April issue of NASA's "The Earth Observer" includes an interesting article entitled "Working with NASA’s HDF and HDF-EOS Earth Science Data Formats", written by Jennifer Brennan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and H. Joe Lee, MuQun Yang, Mike Folk, and Elena Pourmal of The HDF Group.

The article provides a brief overview of how the HDF and HDF-EOS formats are used in the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) followed by an excellent description of examples available on the HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center website.

February 7, 2013: The HDF Group Board Member Recognized as 2013 "Person to Watch" in High-Performance Computing

HPCWire, the #1 news and information portal covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them announced on January 25 that it has published its HPCwire People to Watch 2013 list, and we are proud to congratulate The HDF Group board member Dr. William D. (Bill) Gropp for his selection to the list.

As stated in the announcement, The annual list is comprised of an elite group of the best and brightest minds in HPC whose research, dedication and hard work will be making a difference in the HPC community and in the world with their contributions.

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Gropp is the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Parallel Computing Institute, and Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies. He joined the board of The HDF Group in 2011.

Dr. Gropp is also General Chair for Supercomputing 2013, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.

About receiving this recognition Dr. Gropp remarked, It's a great honor to be part of this year's group of people to watch in HPC. I'll be watching to see how our predictions turn out!

November 7, 2012: ExxonMobil Upstream Research's Standards DevKit Uses HDF5DotNet

"HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 11/07/12 -- The Energistics Consortium announced today that ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has provided an enhanced version of the Standards DevKit that adds support for RESQML 1.1, including managing the HDF5 file format. This enhanced version of the Standards DevKit will support RESQML, the Energistics reservoir data exchange standards as well as WITSML."

The HDF Group worked with the Energistics Consortium in 2011 to provide additional functionality in the .NET C++/CLI wrapper of the HDF5 library and supported the wrapper on Windows XP and Windows 7 for a limited period.

"RESQML is an XML-based data exchange standard that helps to address the data-incompatibility and data-integrity challenges faced by petro-technical professionals when using the multiple software technologies required along the entire subsurface workflow, for analysis, interpretation, modeling, and simulation." (Energistics Guide)

For more information about the HDF5DotNet wrapper, please visit hdf5.net.

August 2, 2012: Major Upgrade of HDF5 OPenDAP handler

A major upgrade of the HDF5 OPeNDAP handler was released at opendap.org. The upgraded version greatly improves the accessibility of NASA Earth Sciences HDF5 data via OPeNDAP. It includes support for more HDF5 data and much better support for the CF conventions. The enhanced CF support will greatly improve interoperability with those clients that understand CF.

July 12, 2012: DOE Primes Pump for Exascale Supercomputers

Article published in HPC Wire about The HDF Group collaboration with Whamcloud and Cray on July 10, 2012.

July 10, 2012: Whamcloud Leads Group of HPC Experts Winning DOE FastForward Storage and IO Project

The HDF Group is collaborating with Cray and Whamcloud on the FastForward program. FastForward is a jointly funded project between the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to accelerate the research and development (R & D) of critical technologies needed for extreme scale computing. Exascale computing is essentially a grand challenge to provide the next level of computational power required to help ensure the prosperity and security of the United States.

March 23, 2012: HDF 4.2.7-patch1

A patched version of the HDF 4.2.7 source code, HDF 4.2.7-patch1, is now available to correct a configure issue with compilers that contain a '-' in the name.

December 19, 2011: HDF5DotNet 1.8.8 now available

HDF5DotNet 1.8.8 is now available for download. This release supports HDF5-1.8.8. See the HDF5DotNet home page for detailed information regarding this release:

   http://hdf5.net/

October 28, 2011: NASA NPP Spacecraft Launches on Earth Observing Mission

The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft lifted off at 5:48 a.m. EDT on Oct. 28, 2011, to begin its earth observation mission. NPP is the first of several satellites, all of whose data will be stored in HDF5.

June 1, 2011: The HDF Group joins OGC

Announcement that The HDF Group has joined the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as an Associate Member.

December 5, 2010: HDF Group's growth, move prompts news coverage

Link to an article in the Champaign, Illinois, News-Gazette.

October 12, 2010: SMAP Data Products in HDF5

SMAP (Soil Moisture Active & Passive) data products will be delivered in the HDF5 Format. SMAP is one of four Tier-1 missions recommended by the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space. It will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles and extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. SMAP data will also be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and improve flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities.

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: 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.