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@@ -120,3 +120,28 @@ Data types This release has been tested on UNIX platforms only; specifically: Linux, FreedBSD, IRIX, Solaris & Dec UNIX. + + +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. |