These documents supplement the HDF5 User’s Guide and provide additional detailed information for the use and tuning of specific HDF5 features. |
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HDF5 Examples | Code examples by API. | |
Chunking in HDF5 | Structuring the use of chunking and tuning it for performance. | |
Using the Direct Chunk Write Function | Describes another way that chunks can be written to datasets. | |
Copying Committed Datatypes with H5Ocopy | Describes how to copy to another file a dataset that uses a committed datatype or an object with an attribute that uses a committed datatype so that the committed datatype in the destination file can be used by multiple objects. | |
Metadata Caching in HDF5 | Managing the HDF5 metadata cache and tuning it for performance. | |
HDF5 Dynamically Loaded Filters | Describes how an HDF5 application can apply a non-native HDF5 filter during I/O operations at run-time. | |
HDF5 File Image Operations | Describes how to work with HDF5 files in memory. Disk I/O is not required when file images are opened, created, read from, or written to. | |
Using Identifiers | Describes how identifiers behave and how they should be treated. | |
Using UTF-8 Encoding in
HDF5 Applications |
Describes the use of UTF-8 Unicode character encodings in HDF5 applications. | |
HDF5 Glossary | A glossary of terms. | |