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

From HDF5 Datasets to Apache Spark RDDs

… HDF% and Spark: Balancing the workload among tasks is a concern in any parallel environment. However, that does not mean that all datasets have to be the same size. HDF5 can help with partial I/O: Instead of reading entire datasets, one could just read hyperslabs or other selections. Sampling is…

Welcome to our blog

Welcome, again, to the new HDF Blog. Let this be the beginning of a lively and informative dialogue.

The HDF Group – who we are

The HDF Group’s mission is to provide high quality software for managing large complex data, to provide outstanding services for users of these technologies, and to insure effective management of data throughout the data life cycle.

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