June 14, 2004
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The Alpha1 release of Flexible Parallel HDF5 (FPHDF5) is now available. It is a prototype implementation with limited features. Its purpose is to test the general concept and programming interface of the Flexible Parallel HDF5 API. You will find more design and implementation details on the following webpage:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Parallel_HDF/PHDF5/FPH5/
ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/FPH5/hdf5-1.7.24-fph5_alpha1.gz
Untar it and follow the configure command in the next paragraph.
If you need more detailed instructions on how to build the HDF5 software, you can read the file, README.txt, in the untarred directory and follow it from there.
env CC=mpicc ./configure --enable-parallel --enable-fphdf5
LANL QSC LANL Theta LLNL Blue, Frost SNL Tflops Linux Mpich NCSA Coppper (AIX 5.1)
testpar/t_fphdf5.c
Limited up to 9 processes. Will fail when run with 10 or more processes.