[Users] New parallel HDF5 API proposed

[Michael Koppitz]

This is intriguing indeed!
When will this new API be publicly available?


Michael


On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Erik Schnetter wrote:

> The HDF5 groups is apparently contemplating adding a new high-level
> API for "HPC HDF5", based on parallel HDF5. I find the idea
> intriguing, as it would move much code that we have currently written
> in Carpet (and that we will have to write to address the "slow
> recovery" issue) into HDF5. In particular, recovering would consist
> essentially of a single call to H5HPCdataset_read_mult_all(), which
> would read multiple datasets from multiple processes.
> 
> -erik
> 
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> Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>   http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/
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