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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL index f84ddc2..9e2c5a7 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ CONTENTS 2. Quick installation 2.1. Windows and Cygwin + 2.2. RedStorm (Cray XT3) 3. HDF5 dependencies 3.1. Make @@ -96,6 +97,13 @@ CONTENTS Users of Microsoft Windows should see the INSTALL_Windows files for detailed instructions. INSTALL_Cygwin also exists for those platforms. +2.2. RedStorm (Cray XT3) + Users of the Red Storm machine, after reading this file, should read + the Red Storm section in the INSTALL_parallel file for specific + instructions for the Red Storm machine. The same instructions would + probably work for other Cray XT3 systems, but they have not been + verified. + 3. HDF5 dependencies 3.1. Make @@ -416,6 +424,12 @@ CONTENTS parallelism on a distributed multi-processor system. Read the file INSTALL_parallel for detailed information. + The threadsafe and C++ interfaces are not compatible + with the parallel option. + Unless --enable-unsupported has been specified on the configure line, + the following options must be disabled: + --enable-threadsafe, --enable-cxx + 4.3.11. Threadsafe capability The HDF5 Library can be configured to be thread-safe (on a very large scale) with the `--enable-threadsafe' flag to the configure @@ -425,6 +439,13 @@ CONTENTS https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/knowledge/Questions+about+thread-safety+and+concurrent+access + The high-level, C++ and Fortran interfaces are not compatible + with the thread-safety option because the lock is not hoisted + into the higher-level API calls. + Unless --enable-unsupported has been specified on the configure line, + the following options must be disabled: + --enable-hl, --enable-cxx, --enable-fortran + 4.3.12. Backward compatibility The 1.8 version of the HDF5 Library can be configured to operate identically to the v1.6 library with the |