HDF5 Data Compression Demystified #1

Elena Pourmal, The HDF Group What happened to my compression? One of the most powerful features of HDF5 is the ability to compress or otherwise modify, or “filter,” your data during I/O. By far, the most common user-defined filters are ones that perform data compression.  As you know, there are many compression options. There are

Putting some Spark into HDF-EOS

…we focus on how far we can push our personal computing devices with Spark. It consists of 7,850 HDF-EOS5 files covering 27 years and totals about 120 GB. We use a driver script, which reads a dataset of interest from each file in the collection, computes per-file quantities of interest, and gathers them in a CSV file for visualization. The processing time on our reference tablet machine for 3.5 years of data using 4 logical processors was about 10 seconds.

Parallel I/O – Why, How, and Where to?

Mohamad Chaarawi, The HDF Group First in a series: parallel HDF5 What costs applications a lot of time and resources rather than doing actual computation?  Slow I/O.  It is well known that I/O subsystems are very slow compared to other parts of a computing system.  Applications use I/O to store simulation output for future use

HDF5 for the Web – HDF Server

HDF Group has just announced “HDF Server” – a freely available service that enables remote access to HDF5 content using a RESTful API. In our scenario, using HDF Server, we upload our Monopoly simulation results to the server and then interested parties can make requests for any desired content to the server – no file size issues, no downloading entire files…

HDF5 as a zero-configuration, ad-hoc scientific database for Python

Andrew Collette, Research Scientist with IMPACT, HDF Guest Blogger “…HDF5 is that rare product which excels in two fields: archiving and sharing data according to strict standardized conventions, and also ad-hoc, highly flexible and iterative use for local data analysis. For more information on using Python together with HDF5…” An enormous amount of effort has

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