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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.