HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
The following topics are broadly applicable in HDF5 applications. | ||
Chunking in HDF5 | Provides background and guidance to assist in structuring and tuning the use of chunking. | |
Using the Direct
Chunk Write Function |
Describes another way that chunks can be written to datasets.
(PDF only) | |
Copying Committed
Datatypes with H5Ocopy |
Describes how to copy to another file a dataset that uses a committed
datatype or an object with an attribute that uses a committed datatype
so that the committed datatype in the destination file can be used by
multiple objects.
(PDF only) | |
Using Identifiers | Describes how HDF5 identifiers behave and how they should be treated. | |
Using
UTF-8
Encoding in HDF5 Applications | Describes the use of UTF-8 Unicode character encodings in HDF5 applications. | |
HDF5 Metadata | Provides a comprehensive overview of the types of metadata used in HDF5. | |
Dynamic Plugins
in HDF5 | Describes the use of dynamic plugins, including dynamically loaded filters, in HDF5. These plugins need not be registered with the HDF5 Library. | |
HDF5
Data Flow
Pipeline for H5Dread | Describes data flow when reading raw data
from an HDF5 dataset.
(PDF only) | |
The following topics are of interest in certain limited situations such as when space utilization or performance must be carefully tuned. | ||
Metadata
Caching
in HDF5 | Provides detailed information for managing and tuning HDF5 metadata caching. | |
HDF5 File Image
Operations |
Describes how to work with HDF5 files in memory. Disk I/O is not
required when file images are opened, created, read from, or
written to.
(PDF only) | |
Modified Region
Writes |
Describes how to set write operations for in-memory files so that
only modified regions are written to storage. Available when
the Core (Memory) VFD is used.
(PDF only) | |
Freeing Memory
Allocated by the HDF5 Library |
Describes how inconsistent memory management can cause heap
corruption or resource leaks and possible solutions.
(PDF only) | |
Enabling a Strict
Consistency Semantics Model in Parallel HDF5 |
Describes how to improve file access consistency semantics with the
Parallel HDF5 Library.
(PDF only) | |
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
The HDF Group Help Desk:
Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.18, November 2016. |
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