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- Installation Instructions for HDF5
- with Different Virtual File Layer
-
- * * *
-
-This file contains installation instructions for HDF5 with certain Virtual File
-Layer to handle file I/O. We currently have documented SRB and Globus-GASS.
-
-
-
- --- Part I. SRB ---
-I. Overview
------------
-This part contains instructions for remote-accessing HDF5 through SRB. The
-SRB version 1.1.7 on Sun Solaris 2.7 platform has been tested. If you have
-difficulties installing the software in your system, please send mails to me
-(Raymond Lu) at
-
- slu@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-First, you must obtain and unpack the HDF5 source as described in the file
-INSTALL. You need the SRB library(client part) installed. You should also
-have access to SRB server.
-
-
-The Storage Resource Broker(SRB) from San Diego Supercomputer Center is client-
-server middleware that provides a uniform interface for connecting to
-heterogeneous data resources over a network and accessig replicated data sets.
-SRB, in conjunction with the Metadata Catalog(MCAT), provides a way to access
-data sets and resources based on their attributes rather than their names or
-physical locations. Their webpage is at http://www.npaci.edu/Research/DI/srb.
-
-HDF5 is built on the top of SRB as a client to remotely access files on SRB
-server through SRB. Right now, HDF-SRB only support low-level file transfer of
-SRB. The MCAT part is not supported yet. Low-level file transfer means files
-are treated just like Unix type files. Files can be read, written and
-appended. Partial access(read and write to a chunk of file without transferrig
-the whole) is also supported.
-
-
-II. Installation Steps
-----------------------
-The installation steps are similar to the ones in INSTALL file:
-
-1. Run 'configure' file with SRB options:
- configure --with-srb=$SRB/include,$SRB/lib
- where $SRB is your SRB installed library directory.
-
- For example, below is a script file to run 'configure':
- #! /bin/sh
- # how to configure to use the SRB
-
- SRB_DIR=/afs/ncsa.uiuc.edu/projects/hdf/users/slu/srb_install
- configure --with-srb=$SRB_DIR/include,$SRB_DIR/lib
-
-2. Run 'make'
-
-3. Run 'make check'
-
-4. Run 'make install'
-
-5. Run testing program(Optional):
- Go to the testing directory(cd test) and run srb_write, srb_read,
- srb_append. Actually, these tests have been run in step 3.
-
- srb_write: Connect to SRB server, write an HDF5 file with an integer
- dataset to SRB server.
- srb_read: Connect to SRB server, read part of HDF5 file on the SRB server.
- srb_append: Connect to SRB server, append an integer dataset to an existent
- HDF5 file on the SRB server.
-
-6. For using HDF-SRB, please read comments in srb_write.c, srb_read.c,
- srb_append.c in the hdf5/test directory.
-
-
-
- --- Part II. Globus-GASS ---
-
-I. Overview
------------
-This part contains instructions for remote-accessing HDF5 through Globus-GASS.
-The SGI IRIX64(and IRIX) 6.5 platform have been tested. If you have
-difficulties installing the software in your system, please send mails to me
-(Raymond Lu) at
- slu@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-First, you must obtain and unpack the HDF5 source as described in the file
-INSTALL. You need the Globus 1.1.x and SSL(should have come with Globus)
-packages.
-
-HDF5 is built on the top of Globus-GASS(1.1.x) to handle remote access.
-Globus-GASS(1.1.x) only supports HTTP and HTTPS protocals for 'whole file
-read and write'. More features may be added in the future.
-
-II. Installation Steps
-----------------------
-The installation steps are similar to the ones in INSTALL file:
-
-1. Run 'configure' file with SSL and GASS options:
- configure --with-ssl=$SSL/lib --with-gass=$GASS/include,$GASS/lib
- where $SSL is your SSL directory, and $GASS is your Globus directory.
-
- For example, below is a script file to run 'configure':
- #! /bin/sh
- # how to configure to use the Globus-GASS(1.1.x)
-
- GASS_DIR=/usr/local/globus-install-1.1.1/development/mips-sgi-irix6.5-64_nothreads_standard_debug
- SSL_LIB=/usr/local/ssl/lib
-
- configure --with-ssl=$SSL_LIB --with-gass=$GASS_DIR/include,$GASS_DIR/lib
-
-2. Run 'make'
-
-3. Run 'make check'
-
-4. Run 'make install'
-
-5. Run testing program:
- There is one read testing program called 'gass_read' in the 'test'
- directory. It does whole file read through HTTP protocal. The URL is
- hard coded as
- http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/GLOBUS/a.h5
-
- The writing really depends on your web server. You have to set up your
- server in right way to accept writing in files. We have tested it using
- Apache Server(1.3.12) without authentication. If you need more details
- about our testing, please contact us. Globus suggests using their GASS
- server.
-
- There is another program called 'gass_append' used for experiments.