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The HDF Group Papers

Big HDF FAQs

Everything that HDF Users have Always Wanted to Know about Hadoop . . . But Were Ashamed to Ask

This document compares HDF5 with Hadoop and discusses how they can be used to complement one another.

This document defines a new HDF5 interface based on an architectural style for network-based architectures called REpresentational State Transfer (REST). It describes HDF5 resources, URIs, and resource representations, and shows a simple example of how to use this interface to populate an HDF5 store.

Please note that this is version 0.1 of this specification. Resource granularity and representations are based on our own experiments and a limited understanding of "real" applications.

This paper was co-written with Mark Howison at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and describes useful performance improvements that are possible by tweaking HDF5.

This document describes experiments that were done to determine the usefulness of accessing HDF5 files with SSHFS.

Delivered at the "Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework (DPIF) Workshop", National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 29-31, 2010, http://ddp.nist.gov/workshop.

This document describes The HDF Group's experience applying virtualization to the HDF Windows support effort.

NCL, GrADS, PyHDF, GDL, and GDAL are five open source software packages that can manipulate either HDF4 or HDF5 data. This document provides a limited evaluation of HDF support for these packages from the user's point of view.

This document describes how to use NCL, GrADS, PyHDF, GDL, and GDAL to access HDF files.

This brief describes how the HDF5-OPeNDAP project facilitated the use of HDF-EOS data to track Beijing's air quality during the August 2008 Olympics.

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