Use of MPI in VFDs

What is a VFD?


A VFD in HDF5 is a "Virtual File Driver", which is the lowest layer in the HDF5 library and directly accesses some method of storing the file's information.  Each VFD implements certain callback functions which are called from the upper layers of the library.

MPI-IO vs. MPI-POSIX:



Description of each parallel VFD:


MPI-POSIX VFD


MPI-IO VFD

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