Obtaining the HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 Software

HDF5 Software

The HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 release consists of a few improvements to the HDF5-1.10.0 release. Please see the New Features and Changes for the changes in this release and the new features in HDF5-1.10.

HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 Source Code

Pre-built Binary Distributions

The pre-built binary distributions in the table below include the HDF5 libraries, include files, utilities, and release notes, and are built with the SZIP Encoder Enabled and ZLIB external libraries.

Platform
 
Linux 3.10 CentOS 7 x86_64   Compilers:   gcc, g++, gfortran 4.8.5, jdk 1.7 or greater Individual Utilities
Linux 2.6 CentOS 6 x86_64   Compilers:   gcc, g++, gfortran 4.4.7, jdk 1.7 or greater Individual Utilities
Linux 2.6 CentOS 6 x86_64 (32-bit)   Compilers:   gcc, g++, gfortran 4.4.7 Individual Utilities
Linux CentOS 6 and 7 64-bit RPMS (not available)  
Windows (64-bit)   [1]   Compilers:   CMake VS 2013 C, C++, IVF 15, jdk 1.7 or greater  
Windows (32-bit)   [1]   Compilers:   CMake VS 2013 C, C++, IVF 15, jdk 1.7 or greater  
Windows (64-bit)   [1]   Compilers:   CMake VS 2015 C, C++, IVF 16, jdk 1.7 or greater  
Windows (32-bit)   [1]   Compilers:   CMake VS 2015 C, C++, IVF 16, jdk 1.7 or greater  

  1. The HDF Group uses an installer program to install the HDF5 libraries, header and support files on Windows. This installer is digitally signed by The HDF Group. Please be aware that the installer requires that the user have permission to install files on the target computer.

    Also note that the Windows binary distributions are built in Release mode with debugging symbols.

    Please avoid using spaces in directory path names as this can cause problems when building.

    To use the shared libraries on Windows with Visual Studio you must specify the H5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB compile definition.

    Static libraries begin with lib and shared libraries do not. For example, hdf5.lib is the shared library and libhdf5.lib is the static library.


New Features and Changes

Changes in HDF5-1.10.0-patch1

The HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 release consists of a few improvements to the HDF5-1.10.0 release. The major changes are:

New Features in HDF5-1.10

HDF5-1.10 is a major release that contains several important new features. Please be aware that this release required format changes. Although this release can read files created with earlier releases, earlier releases may not be able to read HDF5-1.10 files.

Concurrent Access to an HDF5 File: Single-Writer / Multiple-Reader (SWMR)

The Single-Writer / Multiple-Reader or SWMR feature enables users to read data while concurrently writing it. Communications between the processes and file locking are not required. An HDF5 file under SWMR access must reside on a file system that complies with POSIX write() semantics.

Virtual Dataset (VDS)

The VDS feature enables access to data stored in datasets in different HDF5 files using the standard H5D interface without rewriting or rearranging the data. Please note that the VDS feature can be used with SWMR.

Scalable Chunk Indexing

The indexing structure for chunked datasets has been changed to signficantly improve performance.

Persistent Free File Space Tracking

Usage patterns when working with an HDF5 file sometimes result in wasted space within the file. This can also impair access times when working with the resulting files. The new file space management feature enables users to manage the unused space in a file.

Collective Metadata I/O Feature for Improving Parallel HDF5 Performance

The HDF5 Collective Metadata I/O feature has been added to improve performance when reading and writing data collectively with Parallel HDF5.

Calls for HDF5 metadata can result in many small reads and writes. On metadata reads, collective metadata I/O can improve performance by allowing the library to perform optimizations when reading the metadata, by having one rank read the data and broadcasting it to all other ranks.

Collective metadata I/O improves metadata write performance through the construction of an MPI derived datatype that is then written collectively in a single call.

Integration of Java HDF5 JNI into HDF5

The Java HDF5 JNI library has been integrated into the HDF5 source code repository. The configure option "--enable-java" has been added to build HDF5 with Java. The CMake option is HDF5_BUILD_JAVA:BOOL=ON.

In addition, the package hierarchy has changed to "hdf.hdflib.hdf5" from "ncsa.hdf.hdflib.hdf5", as it was in the HDF5-1.8 JNI.

Several new APIs have also been added, including those for VDS and SWMR.

Configuration Changes

Many changes have been made to the HDF5 configuration, including:

Partial Edge Chunk Options

New options for the storage and filtering of partial edge chunks in a dataset provide a tool for tuning I/O speed and file size in cases where the dataset size may not be a multiple of the chunk size.