HDF5

Description

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HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data. HDF5 is portable and is extensible, allowing applications to evolve in their use of HDF5. The HDF5 Technology suite includes tools and applications for managing, manipulating, viewing, and analyzing data in the HDF5 format. Template:App Location

Installed versions

• 1.8.7 serial version with GNU fortran and cxx support at: /apps/hdf5/1.8.7/serial, Installation log.
• 1.8.7 serial version with Intel 11 compilers at: /apps/hdf5/1.8.7/intel-serial
• 1.8.7 parallel version with intel 11 compilers and mvapich2 at: /apps/hdf5/1.8.7/mvapich2
• 1.8.7 parallel version with intel 11 compilers and OpenMPI 1.4.3 at: /apps/hdf5/1.8.7/openmpi

Running the application using modules

To use hdf5 with the environment modules system at HPC the following commands are available:

Get module information for hdf5:

$module spider hdf5

Load the default application module:

$module load hdf5

The modulefile for this software adds the directory with executable files to the shell execution PATH and sets the following environment variables:

• HPC_HDF5_DIR - directory where hdf5 is located.
• HPC_HDF5_BIN - executable binary directory
• HPC_HDF5_LIB - library directory
• HPC_HDF5_INC - includes directory