Author: Lori Cooper

50TB of Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) toolkit data is now available to anyone via HDF Cloud thanks to the work and collaboration between John Readey, Sr. Architect at The HDF Group and NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Access the data now with a Jupyter Notebook or through the interactive web-based visualization tool. If you want to learn more, please click here to read the Amazon blog where John and his NREL collaborators discuss the technology and motivation behind this project....

We are pleased to announce the launch of HDF Group’s new Support Portal and the HDF Forum. The new Support Portal, is located at https://portal.hdfgroup.org is the new home of materials previously found at support.hdfgroup.org. The old support will remain online but will no longer be updated. The new HDF Forum can be found at https://forum.hdfgroup.org and will replace the old hdf-forum mailing list. The old mailing list will be shut down today, Thursday February 22nd. Please visit our quickstart guide now to get started on using the new forum. For questions or comments please use our contact form on our website. Thank you, The HDF Group  ...

The HDF5 1.8.20 release is now available. It can be obtained from The HDF Group Support Download page: https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/ It can also be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html HDF5 1.8.20 is a minor release with a few new features and changes. Important changes include: An issue with H5Zfilter_avail was fixed where it was not finding available plugins. Improvements were made to the h5repack, h5ls, h5dump, h5diff, and h5import utilities.In particular, please be aware that the behavior of the h5repack utility changed. A parameter was added to the "UD=" option of h5repack to allow the user defined filter flag to be changed to either H5Z_FLAG_MANDATORY (0) or H5Z_FLAG_OPTIONAL (1).An example of the command with the new parameter is shown here: h5repack -f UD=307,0,1,9 h5repack_layout.h5 out.h5repack_layout.h5 Previously, the...

The HDF Group is pleased to announce Ann Johnson has joined as the new Director of Engineering, reporting to David Pearah, CEO. Ann was most recently the Vice President of Engineering at Reservoir Labs, responsible for global engineering operations, personnel, and project management. Prior to Reservoir Labs, Ann held several executive management positions at SiCortex, ClearSpeed Technology, and Silicon Graphics. In her new role as Director of Engineering, Ann will be part of The HDF Group’s senior management team—working with all facets of the organization while overseeing and managing software development, quality assurance, and dev ops teams. Her specialized skillsets and past experiences building and directing global technical teams will greatly support The HDF Group’s expansion into new product and service verticals. “We...

Version 2.2.3 of the h4toh5 Conversion Library and Tools is now available from the HDF Downloads page: https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html#h4h5 It can be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5_tools/h4toh5/download.html This release was tested with HDF 4.2.13, HDF5-1.8.19, and HDF5-1.10.1, and contains many changes, including:  Numerous improvements were made to the tools. For example: h4toh5 now follows the HDF5 dimension scale specification to handle HDF4 SDS dimensions “h4toh5 -eos” can now convert a 1D HDF-EOS2 swath to HDF5. Memory leaks in the library and tools were fixed. العاب لربح المال الحقيقي Please see the Release Notes for complete details on what is new with this release: https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/h4toh5/src/h4h5tools-2.2.3-RELEASE.txt ...

The HDFView 2.14 and HDF Java 3.3.2 release is now available. This release supports HDF5-1.8 and 32-bit object identifiers and was tested with HDF5-1.8.19 and HDF 4.2.13. It can be obtained from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html It can also be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/java/release/download.html More information on this release can be found on the HDF Java home page. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes. It includes changes to the error exception handling in the Java HDF wrappers. These changes fix an issue that affected the display of HDF4 files in HDFView....

CONTENTS Release of HDF 4.2.13 Release of HDF 4.2.13 The HDF 4.2.13 release is now available. It can be obtained from the HDF4 home page: https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf4/ HDF 4.2.13 is a minor release with a few changes, including: Support was added for macOS Sierra 10.12.5. Several memory leaks were fixed. The minimum CMake version supported is 3.2.2. For detailed information regarding this release, please see the Release Notes....

The HDF5 1.8.19 release is now available. It can be obtained from the HDF5 Download page: https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/ It can also be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html HDF5 1.8.19 is a minor release with a few new features and changes. Important changes include: Several H5PL (C) APIs were added to manipulate the entries of the plugin path table: H5PLappend, H5PLget, H5PLinsert, H5PLprepend, H5PLremove, H5PLreplace, and H5PLsize. H5Dget_chunk_storage_size (C) was added to obtain the storage size of a chunk in the file. This API was specifically added in support of H5DOread_chunk, but may also be useful for other purposes. H5DOread_chunk (High Level C) was added to read a raw data chunk directly from a dataset in a file, bypassing HDF5's internal data transfer pipeline, including filters. ...

Release of HDF5-1.8.18 (Newsletter #152) - 11/16/16 Release of HDF Java Products for HDF5-1.8 (HDFView 2.13, HDF JNI 3.2.1) (Newsletter #151) - 7/25/16 Release of HDF 4.2.12 (Newsletter #150) - 6/30/16 Release of HDF5-1.10.0-patch (Bulletin) - 5/26/16 Release of HDF5-1.8.17 (Newsletter #149) - 5/13/16 Release of HDF5-1.10.0 (Newsletter #148) - 3/31/16 ...

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