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+<html>
+ <head>
+ <title>Performance</title>
+ </head>
+
+ <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
+
+
+<hr>
+<center>
+<table border=0 width=98%>
+<tr><td valign=top align=left>
+ <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <a href="index.html">Other HDF5 documents and links</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <!--
+ <a href="Glossary.html">Glossary</a><br>
+ -->
+</td>
+<td valign=top align=right>
+ And in this document, the
+ <a href="H5.user.html"><strong>HDF5 User's Guide:</strong></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Files.html">Files</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Datasets.html">Datasets</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Datatypes.html">Datatypes</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Dataspaces.html">Dataspaces</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Groups.html">Groups</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="References.html">References</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Attributes.html">Attributes</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Properties.html">Property Lists</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Errors.html">Error Handling</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Filters.html">Filters</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Caching.html">Caching</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Chunking.html">Chunking</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="MountingFiles.html">Mounting Files</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ Performance&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Debugging.html">Debugging</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Environment.html">Environment</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="ddl.html">DDL</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Ragged.html">Ragged Arrays</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</center>
+<hr>
+
+
+ <h1>Performance Analysis and Issues</h1>
+
+ <h2>1. Introduction</h2>
+
+ <p>This section includes brief discussions of performance issues
+ in HDF5 and performance analysis tools for HDF5 or pointers to
+ such discussions.
+
+ <h2>2. Dataset Chunking</h2>
+
+ Appropriate dataset chunking can make a siginificant difference
+ in HDF5 performance. This topic is discussed in
+ <a href="Chunking.html">Dataset Chunking Issues</a> elsewhere
+ in this <cite>User's Guide</cite>.
+
+ <h2>3. Use of the Pablo Instrumentation of HDF5</h2>
+
+ Pablo HDF5 Trace software provides a means of measuring the
+ performance of programs using HDF5.
+
+ <p>The Pablo software consists
+ of an instrumented copy of the HDF5 library, the Pablo Trace and
+ Trace Extensions libraries, and some utilities for processing the
+ output. The instrumented version of the HDF5 library has hooks
+ inserted into the HDF5 code which call routines in the Pablo Trace
+ library just after entry to each instrumented HDF5 routine and
+ just prior to exit from the routine. The Pablo Trace Extension
+ library has programs that track the I/O activity between the
+ entry and exit of the HDF5 routine during execution.
+
+ <p>A few lines of code must be inserted in the user's main program
+ to enable tracing and to specify which HDF5 procedures are to be
+ traced. The program is linked with the special HDF5 and Pablo
+ libraries to produce an executable. Running this executable on
+ a single processor produces an output file called the trace file
+ which contains records, called Pablo Self-Defining Data Format
+ (SDDF) records, which can later be analyzed using the
+ HDF5 Analysis Utilities. The HDF5 Analysis Utilites can be used
+ to interpret the SDDF records in the trace files to produce a
+ report describing the HDF5 IO activity that occurred during
+ execution.
+
+ <p>For further instructions, see the file <code>READ_ME</code>
+ in the <code> $(toplevel)/hdf5/pablo/ </code> subdirectory of
+ the HDF5 source code distribution.
+
+ <p>For further information about Pablo and the
+ Self-Defining Data Format, visit the Pablo website at
+ <code><a href="http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/">http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/</a></code>.
+
+
+<hr>
+<center>
+<table border=0 width=98%>
+<tr><td valign=top align=left>
+ <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <a href="index.html">Other HDF5 documents and links</a>&nbsp;<br>
+ <!--
+ <a href="Glossary.html">Glossary</a><br>
+ -->
+</td>
+<td valign=top align=right>
+ And in this document, the
+ <a href="H5.user.html"><strong>HDF5 User's Guide:</strong></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Files.html">Files</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Datasets.html">Datasets</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Datatypes.html">Datatypes</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Dataspaces.html">Dataspaces</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Groups.html">Groups</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="References.html">References</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Attributes.html">Attributes</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Properties.html">Property Lists</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Errors.html">Error Handling</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Filters.html">Filters</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Caching.html">Caching</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Chunking.html">Chunking</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="MountingFiles.html">Mounting Files</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ Performance&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Debugging.html">Debugging</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="Environment.html">Environment</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <a href="ddl.html">DDL</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ <br>
+ <a href="Ragged.html">Ragged Arrays</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+</center>
+
+
+
+<hr>
+<address>
+<a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a>
+</address>
+
+<!-- Created: Thu Oct 14 16:46:00 CDT 1999 -->
+<!-- hhmts start -->
+Last modified: 14 October 1999
+<!-- hhmts end -->
+
+<br>
+Describes HDF5 Release 1.4 Beta, December 2000
+
+
+ </body>
+</html>