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* [svn-r5927] Snapshot version 1.5 release 36HDF Admin2002-09-141-1/+1
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* [svn-r5926] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-09-131-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | API name change Description: Change all "space time" references to "alloc time", including API functions and macro definitions, etc. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.6 (sleipnir) w/C++ Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel & FORTRAN
* [svn-r5912] Snapshot version 1.5 release 35HDF Admin2002-09-071-1/+1
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* [svn-r5908] Snapshot version 1.5 release 34HDF Admin2002-08-311-1/+1
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* [svn-r5900] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-08-271-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup/New Feature Description: Improve the space allocation in the file by re-using freed space more effectively. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.6 (sleipnir) w/serial & parallel
* [svn-r5899] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-08-271-0/+6
| | | | | | | Update release notes Description: Mention new space allocation features.
* [svn-r5880] Raymond Lu2002-08-201-0/+5
| | | | | Purpose: add information of compact dataset.
* [svn-r5869] Snapshot version 1.5 release 33HDF Admin2002-08-101-1/+1
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* [svn-r5859] ./hdf5-devel/release_docs/RELEASE.txtRobb Matzke2002-08-091-0/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Merged from 1.4 branch Description: API tracing improvements Platforms tested: Linux (--disable-hsizet didn't work before my changes and still doesn't work, but --enable-hsizet is fine). Note: This checkin includes temporary code in H5FDmpiposix.c to turn off GPFS byte range token prefetches on ASCI/Blue. Once the HDF5 API supports the necessary prerequisite functionality this temporary code can be migraged up above HDF5.
* [svn-r5841] Snapshot version 1.5 release 32HDF Admin2002-08-031-1/+1
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* [svn-r5838] MuQun Yang2002-07-251-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: update windows support. Description: 1. Since we don't support w98 anymore, delete the description about w98. Actually DLL may work on w98. 2. Release dll work for new HDF5 release. Solution: Platforms tested:
* [svn-r5814] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-07-191-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix Description: It was possible to create corrupted metadata information (either in memory or in the file or both) with a parallel I/O program because of the way metadata writes were being handled for writes out of the metadata cache. Solution: Added a dataset transfer property called "block before metadata write" which is used by the MPI-I/O and MPI-posix drivers to sync up all the processes before attempting a metadata write. This property is currently only for metadata writes from the metadata cache. Platforms tested: IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel
* [svn-r5802] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-07-151-0/+10
| | | | | | | | Update docs Description: Note --with-dmalloc addition to configure flags and new MPI-posix VFL driver.
* [svn-r5778] Purpose:Bill Wendling2002-07-101-3/+3
| | | | | | Update Description: Changed to say Linux 2.4.18 instead of 2.4.4
* [svn-r5777] Raymond Lu2002-07-101-0/+5
| | | | | | | Purpose: Update information Description: Update VL memory freeing information.
* [svn-r5774] Snapshot version 1.5 release 31HDF Admin2002-07-061-1/+1
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* [svn-r5726] Snapshot version 1.5 release 30HDF Admin2002-06-291-1/+1
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* [svn-r5696] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-251-2/+2
| | | | Update FreeBSD release info.
* [svn-r5690] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix Description: When parallel I/O is used, the MPI-I/O VFL driver uses a "lazy" model to call MPI_File_set_view() in order to reduce the number of calls to this function. However, this is unsafe, because if a collective I/O which uses MPI derived types (and thus uses MPI_File_set_view()) is immediately followed by an independent I/O, the code will attempt to call MPI_File_set_view() in order to switch back to the default view of the file. MPI_File_set_view() is a collective call however, and this causes the application to hang. Solution: Removed "lazy" MPI_File_set_view() code, instead set the file view when it is needed (with MPI derived types) and immediately set the file view back to the default view before leaving the I/O routine. Platforms tested: IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel. Also, tested with the latest development and release code for the SAF library, which now works correctly with this change. (Although the release branch of the SAF library seems to have a bug, this 1.4.4 release candidate code gets as far as the version the SAF library is released on top of (1.4.2-patch1, I believe)).
* [svn-r5680] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature. Description: There is some discussion among the SAF team as to whether it is better to use MPI derived types for raw data transfers (thus needing a MPI_File_set_view() call), or whether it is better to use a sequence of low-level MPI types (i.e. MPI_BYTE) for the raw data transfer. Solution: Added an in internal flag to determine whether derived types are preferred (the default), or whether they should be avoided. An environment variable ("HDF5_MPI_PREFER_DERIVED_TYPES") can be set by users to control whether MPI types should be used or not. Set the environment variable to "0" (i.e.: 'setenv HDF5_MPI_PREFER_DERIVED_TYPES 0' to avoid using MPI derived types. Platforms tested: IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel
* [svn-r5662] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-181-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix. Description: The chunking code was using internal allocation routines to put blocks on a free list for reuse, instead of using the system allocation routines (ie. malloc, free, etc.). This causes problems when user filters attempt to allocate/free chunks for their algorithm's use. Solution: Switched the chunking code back to using the system allocation routines, we can address performance issues with them if it becomes a real problem. Platforms tested: Linux 2.2.x (eirene) && IRIX64 6.5 (modi4)
* [svn-r5660] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-181-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code optimization Description: Avoid creating MPI types (and thus requiring a MPI_File_set_view() call) when contiguous selections are used for dataset I/O. This should be a performance improvement for those sorts of selections. Platforms tested: Linux 2.2.x (eirene) w/parallel && IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel & FORTRAN
* [svn-r5657] Updated.Albert Cheng2002-06-172-4/+31
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* [svn-r5649] Bugs in src/Makefile and test/Makefile have been resolved.Albert Cheng2002-06-171-43/+4
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* [svn-r5636] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Default change Description: Enable the use of MPI types for collective I/O by default. Platforms tested: Linux 2.2.x (eirene) w/parallel
* [svn-r5603] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-121-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix Description: I/O on "Regular" hyperslab selections could fail to transfer correctly if the number of elements in the selection's row did now fit "evenly" into the buffer being used for the transfer. Solution: Correct the calculation of the block & count offsets within the optimized "regular" hyperslab routines. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r5591] Purpose:Bill Wendling2002-06-111-1/+4
| | | | | | | | Update Description: Explained that, if the user uses the "make install prefix=NEW_DIR" option, they'll need to modify the installed h5cc file to reflect the change.
* [svn-r5586] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix Description: H5Dcreate and H5Tcommit allow "empty" compound and enumerated types (i.e. ones with no members) to be stored in the file, but this causes an assertion failure and is somewhat vapid. Solution: Check the datatype "makes sense" before using it for H5Dcreate and H5Tcommit. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r5571] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix (#709)/Code improvement. Description: Allow chunks for chunked datasets to be cached when file is open for read-only access. Platforms tested: IRIX64 6.5 (modi4) w/parallel
* [svn-r5566] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix (bug #777) Description: Current code allows a compound datatype to be inserted into itself. Solution: Check if the ID for the member is the same as the ID for the compound datatype and reject it if so. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r5560] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-101-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix for bug #789 Description: Creating a 1-D dataset region reference caused the library to hang (go into an infinite loop). Solution: Corrected algorithm for serializing hyperslab regions. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r5536] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-051-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature. Description: Added a "small data" block allocation mechanism to the library, similar to the mechanism used for allocating metadata currently. See the RFC for more details: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/SmallData/SmallData.html This reduces the number of I/O operations which hit the disk for my test program from 19 to 15 (i.e. from 393 to 15, overall). Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN and FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
* [svn-r5534] Purpose:Albert Cheng2002-06-041-18/+30
| | | | | | Updated the instructions for tflops and O2K. Platforms tested: eye balled.
* [svn-r5524] Elena Pourmal2002-06-041-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Purpose: Bug fix (#699), fix provided by a user, approved by Quincey Description: When a scalar dataspace was written to the file and then subsequently queried with the H5Sget_simple_extent_type function, type was reported H5S_SIMPLE instead of H5S_SCALAR. Solution: Applied a fix (see bug report 699) Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 and Linux 2.2.18
* [svn-r5521] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-041-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code improvement Description: The metadata aggregation code in the library was not terribly smart about extending contiguous regions of metadata in the file and would not extend them as far as possible. This causes space in the file to be wasted, also. Solution: Be smarter about extending the space used in the file for metadata by checking whether new metadata blocks allocated in the file are at the end of the current metadata aggregation region and append them to the metadata region if so. This has the nice side benefit of reducing the number of bytes we waste in the file and reducing the size of the file by a small amount in some cases. This reduces the number of I/O operations which hit the disk for my test program from 53 to 19 (i.e. from 393 to 19, overall). Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN and FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
* [svn-r5519] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug Fix Description: The "dirty" flag for symbol table entries and symbol table nodes was not being cleared when they were flushed to the file, causing lots of extra metadata I/O. Solution: Reset the symbol table entry & nodes' flags when thy are flushed to disk. This reduces the number of I/O operations which hit the disk for my test program from 83 to 53 (i.e. from 393 to 53, overall). Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN & FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
* [svn-r5510] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup/bug fix Description: The "metadata accumulator" cache in the library (which is designed to catch small metadata writes/reads and bundle them together into larger I/O buffers) was incorrectly detecting the important case of metadata pieces being written sequentially to the file, adjoining but not overlapping. Additionally, the metadata accumulator was not being used to cache data read in from disk, only caching writes. Solution: Fix accumulator to correctly cache adjoining metadata writes and also to cache metadata read from disk. Between these two fixes, the number of I/O requests which resulted in actual reads/writes to the filesystem dropped from 393 requests to 82 for the particular test I was using. :-) Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN & FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
* [svn-r5506] Snapshot version 1.5 release 29HDF Admin2002-06-021-1/+1
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* [svn-r5500] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-06-011-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document Bug Fix Description: Under certain [obscure] circumstances, an object header would get paged out of the metadata cache, and when it was accessed again and brought back into the cache, and immediately had additional metadata added to it (an attribute, usually, or perhaps adding an object to a group), and needed to be extended with a continuation message, but there was no room in any existing object header chunks for the continuation message and an existing object header message needed to be moved to the new object header chunk (I told you it was obscure :-), the object header message moved to the new chunk (not the new metadata being added) would get corrupted. *whew* :-) Solution: Actually copy the "raw" object header message information of the object header message being moved to the new chunk, instead of relying on the "native" object header message information being re-encoded when the object header is flushed. This is because when an object header is paged out of the metadata cache and subsequently brought back in, the "native" information pointer in memory is reset to NULL and only the "raw" information exists. Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) & FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir)
* [svn-r5465] Snapshot version 1.5 release 28HDF Admin2002-05-281-1/+1
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* [svn-r5453] MuQun Yang2002-05-221-313/+21
| | | | | | | | | Purpose: update, remove hdf4-related stuff. Description: hdf4 related tools have been moved out of HDF5 CVS tree, The install doc should reflect this. Solution: Platforms tested:
* [svn-r5442] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-201-0/+4
| | | | Document VFL "flush" changes.
* [svn-r5435] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-171-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Document Code improvement below: Description: Propagated the "fill time" property into the parallel chunk allocation routine, allowing it to avoid writing fill values to each new chunk allocated. This improves the performance of chunked datasets in parallel I/O to be on par with contiguous datasets again (on modi4).
* [svn-r5430] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-171-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document Bug fix/Code improvement below: Description: Currently, the chunk data allocation routine invoked to allocate space for the entire dataset is inefficient. It writes out each chunk in the dataset, whether it is already allocated or not. Additionally, this happens not only when it is created, but also anytime it is opened for writing, or the dataset is extended. Worse, there's too much parallel I/O syncronization, which slows things down even more. Solution: Only attempt to write out chunks that don't already exist. Additionally, share the I/O writing between all the nodes, instead of writing everything with process 0. Then, only block with MPI_Barrier if chunks were actually created.
* [svn-r5415] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-141-0/+2
| | | | Document Bug Fix
* [svn-r5409] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-131-0/+2
| | | | Document Performance enhancement
* [svn-r5404] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-131-6/+0
| | | | | | | Back out change Description: Back out description of VFL 'flush' change.
* [svn-r5395] Purpose:Bill Wendling2002-05-101-0/+9
| | | | | | | Update Description: Added documentation on how you can install in a different directory than the one you specified during configuration.
* [svn-r5394] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-101-1/+7
| | | | Document new VFL flush parameter.
* [svn-r5389] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2002-05-101-0/+2
| | | | Update release notes about rotating metadata writes.
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