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 This release has been tested on UNIX platforms only; specifically:
 Linux, FreedBSD, IRIX, Solaris & Dec UNIX.
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+
+Release information for parallel HDF5
+-------------------------------------
+
++) Current release supports independent access to fixed dimension datasets
+   only.
+
++) The comm and info arguments of H5Cset_mpi are not used.  All parallel
+   I/O are done via MPI_COMM_WORLD.  Access_mode for H5Cset_mpi can be
+   H5ACC_INDEPENDENT only.
+
++) This release of parallel HDF5 has been tested on SP2 and Origin 2000
+   systems.  It uses the ROMIO version of MPIO interface for parallel
+   I/O supports.
+
++) Useful URL's.
+   Parallel HDF webpage: "http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Parallel_HDF/"
+   ROMIO webpage: "http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/thakur/romio/"
+
++) Future plan for parallel HDF5
+   1) support for Intel Teraflop platform.
+   2) support for unlimited dimension datasets.
+   3) support for collective access to datasets.
+   4) support for independent create/open of datasets.