Hermes 0.9.8-beta release

Hermes 0.9.8 has been released. This release features tagging. Tags enable users to semantically define associations between blobs and provide an intuitive way of locating blobs which are related.

2023 ECP Community BOF Days

The HDF Group is excited to announce we’re participating in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) 2023 Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days. Make sure to join the HDF5 session, HDF5: Pre-ECP, Present, and Future on February 14.

Agenda for the 2021 HDF5 User Group Meeting (October 12-14) is now available

The agenda for the 2021 HDF5 User Group meeting has been posted. This event, scheduled with US time zones in mind, runs each day October 12-14 from about 9:00 a.m. central to 1:30 p.m. central time and features a variety of speakers on topics including the HDF5 ecosystem, apps, and features. This is event is

HDF5 User Group (HUG) Meeting 2020 Summary

Suren Byna, Elena Pourmal, Lori Cooper  Overview HDF5 has been a widely used tool to simplify management and access to scientific and engineering data with ubiquitous data solutions. With rapidly growing data across all domains of science and industry, HDF5 developers have been building technologies that provide rapid, easy, and permanent access to complex data.

Liberating Real-Time Data via HDF5: The Fastest Approach for Exposing Embedded Data for Analysis, Machine Learning, and Cloud-Enabled Services

The HDF Group’s technical mission is to provide rapid, easy and permanent access to complex data. FishEye’s vision is “Synthesizing the world’s real-time data”. This white paper is intended for embedded system users, software engineers, integrators, and testers that use or want to use HDF5 to access, collect, use and analyze machine data. FishEye has developed an innovative process that provides the most efficient method to expose data from embedded systems that simplifies and liberates data for real-time analysis, machine learning, and cloud-enabled services.

An I/O Study of ECP Applications

We are pleased to post this white paper from The HDF Group intern, Chen Wang. This paper looks at the steps of analyzing and tuning the HACC-IO benchmarks, the impact of different access patterns, stripe settings and HDF5 metadata. It also compares the five benchmarks on two different parallel file systems, Lustre and GPFS and

HDF5 Tutorial at the 2020 ECP Annual Meeting

On February 6, 2020, the members of the ECP ExaIO project, Elena Pourmal and Scot Breitenfeld (The HDF Group), Quincey Koziol (NERSC), and Suren Byna (LBNL), presented HDF5 Tutorial at the ECP Annual Meeting. We’ve posted the slide deck and Q&A for your convenience.

HDF5 European Workshop 2019

The HDF5 European workshop, co-organized with ESRF, and sponsored by OpenIO and Omnibond took place on September 17-18, 2019. This event covered the latest HDF5 developments, HDF5 use cases from science and industry, and HDF5 Applications and Tools. This post is an archive of the recorded presentations of this event.

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