Why should I care about the HDF5 1.10.2 Release?

On March 30th, we announced the release of HDF5 version 1.10.2. With this release, we accomplished all the tasks planned for the major HDF5 1.10 series. It is time for applications to start migrating (or start their migration) from HDF5 1.8 to the new major release as we will be dropping support for HDF5 1.8 in Summer 2019. In this blog post , we will focus only on the major new features and bug fixes in HDF5 1.10.2. Hopefully, after reading about those, you will be convinced it is time to upgrade to HDF5 1.10.2.

The HDF Group Appoints Two New Board Members

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.

Webinar Announcement: Learn about New Features in HDF5 1.12.0

The HDF Group is ready to announce a new major release, HDF5 1.12.0. This will be the first release that allows our users to access HDF5 data stored on non-POSIX storage, such as Cloud or Object Store. The release will also include performance enhancements to the parallel and sequential HDF5 libraries.Learn more about these new features in this upcoming webinar.

HSDS for Microsoft Azure

HSDS (Highly Scalable Data Service) is a REST based service for HDF data, part of HDF Cloud, our set of solutions for cloud deployments. In the recent blog about the latest release of HSDS we discussed many of the new features in the 0.6 release including support for Azure.

Webinar Followup: New Features in the HDF5 1.13.0 Release

On Friday, September 24 at 11:00 a.m. CDT, Dana Robinson and Joe Lee of The HDF Group presented a webinar covering the major new features of the HDF5 1.13.0 release. They discussed the pluggable virtual file drivers (VFDs) and changes to the virtual object layer (VOL) and showed how to build and use the async, pass-through, and cache VOL connectors.

New HDF5 CVE Issues (Fixed in 1.14.4)

Several new HDF5 CVE issues have been filed in MITRE and these should be released to the public sometime in the next few weeks. They are all fixed in HDF5 1.14.4 (released April 15, 2024) and no MITRE CVE issues are unaddressed.

The HDF Group – who we are

The HDF Group’s mission is to provide high quality software for managing large complex data, to provide outstanding services for users of these technologies, and to insure effective management of data throughout the data life cycle.

ESIP Summer Meeting – HDF Workshop and Town Hall

HDF Group is hosting a one-day workshop at the upcoming Federation for Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting in Asilomar, CA on July 14th. Please join us to learn about new HDF tools, projects and perspectives. There will also be an HDF Town Hall meeting on Wednesday afternoon July 15th

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)

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