HDF

Software Summary

Last Updated On:

Friday, August 11, 2017

Support Level:

Secondary Support

Software Access Level:

Open Access

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Software Categories:

Geoscience

Libraries

Software Description

Software Description:

HDF is a library and a multi-object file format that facilitates the transfer of various types of scientific data between machines and operating systems. There are two versions of HDF available at MSI, HDF4 and HDF5. The physical file formats of HDF4 and HDF5 are different. HDF5 also has a collection of utilities for manipulating data.

Software Documentation

Software Documentation Tabs

Itasca

Itasca Documentation:

Itasca

To run HDF5 interactively in a Linux environment run the command:

 module load hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-intel-pmpi

or

 module load hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-intel-serial

On Itasca, examples can be found in

 /soft/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-intel-serial/share/hdf5_examples

 /soft/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.7-intel-pmpi/share/hdf5_examples

Documentation is available at

 http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/doc-info.html

 http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc.html

Lab

Lab Documentation:

Labs

To run HDF5 interactively in a Linux environment run the command:

module load hdf5

Examples

Examples of how to use HDF5 routines can be found on the Lab Linux systems in

/soft/hdf5/1.8.5-patch1/share/hdf5_examples/

Documentation is available at

 http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/doc-info.html

 http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc.html