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authorrawarren <richardwarren2@verizon.net>2021-11-29 21:25:23 (GMT)
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Add support for parallel tools based on the 3rd party library mpiFileUtils (libMFU) … (#1177)
Adds tool h5dwalk and configure options to enable building it. Co-authored-by: Richard Warren <Richard.Warren@hdfgroup.org> Co-authored-by: github-actions <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Richard.Warren <richard.warren@jelly.ad.hdfgroup.org> Co-authored-by: Larry Knox <lrknox@hdfgroup.org>
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@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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+ - Added new configure option to support building parallel tools.
+ See Tools below (autotools - CMake):
+ --enable-parallel-tools HDF5_BUILD_PARALLEL_TOOLS
+
+ (RAW - 2021/10/25)
+
- Added new configure options to enable dimension scales APIs (H5DS*) to
use new object references with the native VOL connector (aka native HDF5
library). New references are always used for non-native terminal VOL
@@ -929,6 +935,19 @@ New Features
Tools:
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+ - Added a new (unix ONLY) parallel meta tool 'h5dwalk', which utilizes the
+ mpifileutils (https://hpc.github.io/mpifileutils) open source utility
+ library to enable parallel execution of other HDF5 tools.
+ This approach can greatly enhance the serial hdf5 tool performance over large
+ collections of files by utilizing MPI parallelism to distribute an application
+ load over many independent MPI ranks and files.
+
+ An introduction to the mpifileutils library and initial 'User Guide' for
+ the new 'h5dwalk" tool can be found at:
+ https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5doc/tree/master/RFCs/HDF5/tools/parallel_tools
+
+ (RAW - 2021/10/25)
+
- Refactored the perform tools and removed depends on test library.
Moved the perf and h5perf tools from tools/test/perform to