Champaign, IL – The HDF Group announced its Board of Directors has appointed Gerd Heber as its new Executive Director. The HDF Group is a software company dedicated to creating and supporting technologies to address many of today’s big data challenges.
Dr. Heber, who has been The HDF Group’s Applications Architect since 2010, replaces Mike Folk upon his retirement. Folk will remain a member of the Board of Directors.
The HDF Group’s formal comment to a DOE request on stewardship for scientific and high-performance computing was published in the Federal Register. We had a joint position paper at January’s ASCR Workshop on Visualization for Scientific Discovery, Decision-Making, & Communication. The paper is called Whither Visualization Logic and was written by Leigh Orf (University of Wisconsin), Lucas Villa Real
The HDF Group’s Gerd Heber hosts a weekly session where he tries to answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions intended to help users tackle real-world HDF problems from a common cold to severe headaches and offer relief where that’s possible. As
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
The HDF Group (HDF®), the maintainers and creators of the open source HDF5 library and file format, has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium as an affiliate to provide expertise that can enhance and accelerate COVID-19 research.
Dear HDF Community, Nothing is more important than the need to protect the health and safety of those most vulnerable to COVID-19. The HDF Group is taking steps to minimize health risks to our teammates and their families, our clients, and our communities by closing our Champaign office and asking all employees to work remotely.
Champaign, IL—Scot Breitenfeld, a 10-year employee of The HDF Group has been named co-chair of the CFD General Notation System (CGNS) Steering Committee. The CGNS provides a portable and extensible standard for the storage and retrieval of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis data. The CGNS Steering Committee is responsible for the development, evolution, support, and
We are pleased to announce the launch of The HDF Group’s new web-based Service Desk. The Service Desk (https://help.hdfgroup.org) is now available to the entire HDF community to submit issues, help requests, and bug reports.
After many requests, we are happy to announce we have opened our bug tracker to the community. The HDF Group has used Jira to record bugs, issues, and feature requests for many years, giving ticket numbers (usually HDFFV-#####) out, with no self-service way for users to follow-up on those tickets.
The HDF Group is pleased to announce the appointments of Jessica Popp, Senior Director of Engineering at SendGrid and E.G. Nadhan, Chief Technology Strategist, Central Region, Red Hat to the HDF Group Board of Directors.
