HDF Newsletter 39


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January 7, 1999

CONTENTS

Parallel Release of HDF5 version 1.0.1 Release of HDF5 version 1.0 Beta for Windows NT/95
HDF5 Utilities - h5dump and h5toh4

Parallel Release of HDF5 version 1.0.1

We are pleased to announce the first official release of the parallel implementation of HDF5, version 1.0.1. It uses the ROMIO version of the MPIO interface for parallel I/O support.

Following are the supported features in this release:

The parallel HDF5 release distribution is located at:

   ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/hdf5-1.0.1/
The web-site for HDF5 is located at:
   http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/

Changes Since the Beta Release

Platforms Supported

This release has been tested on the following platforms:
   Intel Red
   IBM SP2
   SGI Origin 2000

Release of HDF5 version 1.0 Beta for Windows NT/95

A beta version of HDF5 version 1.0 is now available for Windows NT/95. You can download this from:
    ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/hdf5-windows-beta/ 

HDF5 Utilities - h5dump and h5toh4

Alpha source code is available which contains the h5toh4 and improved h5dump utilities. Binaries for Solaris 2.5 are also included. The h5dump utility offers a convenient way to dump the contents of an HDF5 file. The h5toh4 utility enables you to convert some HDF5 objects into HDF4 objects.

Both utilities are documented in the tools section of the HDF5 Reference Manual, which is included with the alpha source code.

You can download this from:

    ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/hdf5-tools-alpha/