Jean Zay: The HDF5 library

Introducton

HDF signifies Hierarchical Data Format. This format was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and is now supported by The HDF Group. It facilitates the handling of files containing very large quantities of data through prioritisation in tree hierarchies.

Available versions

Versions HDF5 1.8.21 and HDF5 1.10.5 are installed on Jean Zay. They are compiled in sequential and parallel with Intel MPI or OpenMPI.

Usage

HDF5 is accessible via the module command.

Sequential versions

$ module load hdf5/1.8.21

or

$ module load hdf5/1.10.5

Intel MPI parallel versions

$ module load hdf5/1.8.21-mpi

or

$ module load hdf5/1.10.5-mpi

OpenMPI parallel version

$ module load hdf5/1.8.21-mpi-cuda

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