The HDF Group’s HPC Program
Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group
“A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.” – Ken Batcher, Prof. Emeritus, Kent State University.
HDF5 began out of a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC), so high-performance computing (HPC) I/O has been in our focus from the very beginning. As we are starting our 20th year of development on HDF5, HPC I/O continues to be a critical driver of new features.
The HDF5 development team has focused on three things when serving the HPC community: performance, freedom of choice and ease of use.