Release of HDF 4.2.14 – Newsletter #162
The release of HDF 4.2.14 and examples for Accessing NASA ESDIS Data
HDF5 Or How I Learned To Love Data Compression And Partial I/O
David Ziganto is a senior data scientist and corporate trainer at Metis in Chicago, IL. This post was originally shared on his site at https://dziganto.github.io/, but we enjoyed it so much we wanted to share it with everyone.
Citations for HDF Data and Software
The topic of software citation has been discussed in many forums recently and several major discovery repositories (e.g. zenodo and DataCite) support metadata for software in addition to datasets and other resource types. HDF5 stradles the boundary between the dataset and software worlds. It is most commonly thought of and referred to as a data format, but, as in any case, data written in the HDF formats can not be read without HDF software. So, the answer to the question: is it a format or is it software? is clearly both.
Release of HDF5 1.8.21 – Newsletter #161
The HDF5 1.8.21 release is now available, and can be accessed from both the HDF5 download page and Support Portal.
Damaris: An Asynchronous Data Aggregator Middleware in Support of HDF5 Library
Damaris is a middleware that enriches existing HPC data format libraries (e.g. HDF5) with data aggregation and asynchronous data management capabilities. At the same time, it can be employed for in situ analysis and visualization purposes.
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.
Release of HDF5 1.10.2 – Newsletter #160
The HDF5 1.10.2 release is now available for download from: https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
The source code (only) can also be obtained from: https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support/HDF5+1.10.2
User documentation for HDF5 1.10 can be accessed here: https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/
Large wind dataset now available via HDF Cloud
50TB of Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) toolkit data is now available to anyone via HDF Cloud thanks to the work and collaboration between John Readey, Sr. Architect at The HDF Group and NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Access the data now with a Jupyter Notebook or through the interactive web-based visualization tool. If you want
Community development projects from The HDF Group
We are pleased to announce the launch of HDF Group’s new Support Portal and the HDF Forum. The new Support Portal, is located at https://portal.hdfgroup.org is the new home of materials previously found at support.hdfgroup.org. The old support will remain online but will no longer be updated. The new HDF Forum can be found at
Release of HDF5 1.8.20 – Newsletter #159
The HDF5 1.8.20 release is now available. It can be obtained from The HDF Group Support Download page: https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/ It can also be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html HDF5 1.8.20 is a minor release with a few new features and changes. Important changes include: An issue with H5Zfilter_avail was fixed where it was not finding available