HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 User's Guide 
HDF5 Reference Manual 
HDF5 Application Developer's Guide 

Advanced Topics in HDF5


The following topics are broadly applicable in HDF5 applications.
Chunking in HDF5     Provides background and guidance to assist in structuring and tuning the use of chunking.
 
Copying Committed
    Datatypes with
    H5Ocopy
    Describes how to copy to another file a dataset that uses a committed datatype or an object with an attribute that uses a committed datatype so that the committed datatype in the destination file can be used by multiple objects.
(PDF only)
 
Using Identifiers     Describes how HDF5 identifiers behave and how they should be treated.
 
HDF5 Metadata Provides a comprehensive overview of the types of metadata used in HDF5.
 
HDF5 Data Flow
   Pipeline for H5Dread
    Describes data flow when reading raw data from an HDF5 dataset.
(PDF only)
 

The following topics are of interest in certain limited situations such as when space utilization or performance must be carefully tuned.
Metadata Caching
    in HDF5
Provides detailed information for managing and tuning HDF5 metadata caching.
 
HDF5 File Image
    Operations
Describes how to work with HDF5 files in memory. Disk I/O is not required when file images are opened, created, read from, or written to.
(PDF only)
 
Enabling a Strict
    Consistency
    Semantics Model
    in Parallel HDF5
Describes how to improve file access consistency semantics with the Parallel HDF5 Library.
(PDF only)
 

HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 User's Guide 
HDF5 Reference Manual 
HDF5 Application Developer's Guide 

The HDF Group Help Desk:
Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.9, May 2012.
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Last modified: 23 April 2012