HDFql – the new HDF tool that speaks SQL
HDFql offers a language similar to SQL for HDF5. By providing a simpler/cleaner interface, HDFql aims to ease scientific computing and big data management.
The HDF Group welcomes new CEO Dave Pearah
Champaign, IL — The HDF Group today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed David Pearah as its new Chief Executive Officer. The HDF Group is a software company dedicated to creating high performance computing technology to address many of today’s Big Data challenges. Pearah replaces Mike Folk upon his retirement after ten years
Easy access to the NASA HDF products via OPeNDAP’s Hyrax
MuQun (Kent) Yang, The HDF Group Many NASA HDF and HDF5 data products can be visualized via the Hyrax OPeNDAP server through Hyrax’s HDF4 and HDF5 handlers. Now we’ve enhanced the HDF5 OPeNDAP handler so that SMAP level 1, level 3 and level 4 products can be displayed properly using popular visualization tools. Organizations in
Announcing HDF5 1.10.0
We are excited and pleased to announce HDF5-1.10.0, the most powerful version of our flagship software ever.> This major new release of HDF5 is more powerful than ever before and packed with new capabilities that address important data challenges faced by our user community. HDF5 1.10.0 contains many important new features and changes, including those
The Blosc meta-compressor
Blosc is an open source compression library that offers a number of features that make it unique among compressor software.
Guided metadata improvement to increase data sharing and understanding
Lindsay Powers, The HDF Group The HDF Group is collaborating with the University of California, Santa Barbara and Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE), to help scientific research communities enhance the consistency and quality of their metadata, to foster discovery, access and understanding of data resources. As part of this collaboration, on February 9, 2016,
HDF5 and .NET: One step back, two steps forward
… enables the creation of new APIs, be it a more specific one or a new higher level API. All this is achieved in a maintainable, .NET-conformant manner, while enabling .NET developers to be creative and efficient with HDF5.
The HDF Group at the ESIP Winter Meeting
Ted Habermann, The HDF Group The first week of January brought leaders of the Earth Science informatics community together in Washington DC for the winter meeting of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP Federation). This year NOAA’s Environmental Data Management Workshop was co-located with ESIP for five exciting days of data management ideas
Release of HDF5 1.10.0-alpha1
single write/multiple read, virtual dataset, scalable chunk indexing, free file space tracking, collective metadata I/O
To Serve and Protect: Web Security for HDF5
HDF Server is a new product from The HDF Group which enables HDF5 resources to be accessed and modified using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The newest version of HDF Server provides exciting capabilities for accessing data in an easy and secure way.