[Users] New parallel HDF5 API proposed

[Erik Schnetter]

I think this is only a proposal at the moment. I think HDF 1.10 is
currently under development -- maybe it'll make it in there, maybe
it'll be 1.12. I'm not following HDF5 development, but Werner Benger
does, maybe he knows.

-erik

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Michael Koppitz <koppitz at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> 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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