Advanced HDF5 Features

(1 hour, Elena Pourmal)

This tutorial is designed for users with some HDF5 experience. It will cover advanced features of the HDF5 library that can be used to achieve better I/O performance and more efficient storage. The following HDF5 features will be discussed: partial I/O; compression and other filters, including new n-bit and scale+offset filters and data storage options. Significant time will be devoted to the discussion of complex HDF5 datatypes such as strings, variable-length datatypes, array datatypes, and compound datatypes.

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