Describes HDF5 Release 1.6.10, November 2009 Last modified: 13 November 2008
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User's Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
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These documents provide information of particular interest to
developers of applications that employ the HDF5 library.
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HDF5 Library Changes
from Release to Release | A summary of changes in the HDF5 library | |
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Supported Configuration
Features Summary | A summary of configuration features
supported in this release
(external link)
Archive (external link) | |
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HDF5 Image and
Palette Specification | A specification for the implementation of images and palettes in HDF5 applications | |
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Mapping HDF4 Objects
to HDF5 Objects | Guidelines for translating HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects (PDF format only) | |
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Fill Value and Space
Allocation Issues | A summary of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation issues (external link) | |
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Fill Value and Space
Allocation Behavior | A table summarizing of the behavioral interactions of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation settings (external link) | |
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SZIP Compression
in HDF5 | A description of SZIP compression in HDF5,
H5Pset_szip, terms of use and copyright notice,
and references
(external link)
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| Shuffle Performance | An analysis of bzip and gzip compression
performance in HDF5 with and without the shuffle filter,
H5Pset_shuffle
(external link)
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| Generic Properties | An overview of and the motivation for the implementation and use of generic properties in HDF5 (external link) | |
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Error-detecting Codes
for HDF5 | A discussion of error-detection codes, e.g., checksums, in HDF5 (external link) | |
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Fletcher32 Checksum
Design and Spec | Design, API function specification, and test for the Fletcher32 checksum implementation in HDF5 (external link) | |
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The HDF5 source code, as distributed to users and developers, contains two additional files that will be of interest to readers of this document. Both files are located at the top level of the HDF5 source code tree and are duplicated here for your reference: | ||
| RELEASE.txt | Technical notes regarding this release | |
| HISTORY.txt | A release-by-release history of the HDF5 library | |
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User's Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
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The HDF Group Help Desk:
Describes HDF5 Release 1.6.10, November 2009 Last modified: 13 November 2008 |
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