The HDF Group’s HPC Program

Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group “A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.” – Ken Batcher, Prof. Emeritus, Kent State University. HDF5 began out of a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC), so high-performance computing (HPC) […]

Answering biological questions using HDF5 and physics-based simulation data

David Dotson, doctoral student, Center for Biological Physics, Arizona State University; HDF Guest Blogger Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Anthony Scopatz for the first time at SciPy 2015, and we talked shop. I was interested in his opinions on MDSynthesis, a Python package our lab has designed to help manage the complexity of raw and derived

Parallel I/O with HDF5

Mohamad Chaarawi, The HDF Group Second in a series: Parallel HDF5 In my previous blog post, I discussed the need for parallel I/O and a few paradigms for doing parallel I/O from applications. HDF5 is an I/O middleware library that supports (or will support in the near future) most of the I/O paradigms we talked

Get your Bearings with HDF Compass

John Readey, The HDF Group   We’ve recently announced a new viewer application for HDF5 files: HDF Compass. In this blog post we’ll explore the motivations for providing this tool, review its features, and speculate a bit about future direction for Compass. HDF Compass is a desktop viewer application for HDF5 and other file formats.

Letter to the HDF User Community

Lindsay Powers – The HDF Group The HDF Group provides free, open-source software that is widely used in government, academia and industry. The goal of The HDF Group is to ensure the sustainable development of HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) technologies and the ongoing accessibility of HDF-stored data because users and organizations have mission-critical systems and

HDF5 Data Compression Demystified #1

Elena Pourmal, The HDF Group What happened to my compression? One of the most powerful features of HDF5 is the ability to compress or otherwise modify, or “filter,” your data during I/O. By far, the most common user-defined filters are ones that perform data compression.  As you know, there are many compression options. There are

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