HDF5

The Hierarchical Data Format HDF5 (and its parallel manifestation HDF5 parallel) is a standard library and data format developed and supported by The HDF Group, and is released under a BSD-like license.

Both serial and parallel versions are available on ARCHER2 as standard modules:

• module load cray-hdf5 (serial version)
• module load cray-hdf5-parallel (MPI parallel version)

Use module help to locate cray-specific release notes on a particular version.

Known issues:

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• There are no currently known issues.

• There is currently a problem with the module file which means cray-hdf5-parallel will not operate correctly in PrgEnv-aocc. One can load module epcc-cray-hdf5-parallel instead as a work-around if PrgEnv-aocc is required.

• There are no currently known issues.

Some general comments and information on serial and parallel I/O to ARCHER2 are given in the section on I/O and file systems.

Resources

Tutorials and introduction to HDF5 at the HDF5 Group pages.

General information for developers of HDF5.