Installation Instructions for Remote-Accessing HDF5 I. Overview ----------- This file contains instructions for remote-accessing HDF5. The SGI IRIX64 (and IRIX) 6.5 platform have been tested. If you have difficulties installing the software in your system, please send mails to me(Raymond Lu) at slu@ncsa.uiuc.edu First, you must obtain and unpack the HDF5 source as described in the file INSTALL. You need the Globus 1.1.x and SSL(should have come with Globus) packages. HDF5 is built on the top of Globus-GASS(1.1.x) to handle remote access. Globus-GASS(1.1.x) only supports HTTP and HTTPS protocals for 'whole file read and write'. More features may be added in the future. II. Installation Steps ---------------------- The installation steps are similar to the ones in INSTALL file: 1. Run 'configure' file with SSL and GASS options: configure --with-ssl=$SSL/lib --with-gass=$GASS/include,$GASS/lib where $SSL is your SSL directory, and $GASS is your Globus directory. For example, below is a script file to run 'configure': #! /bin/sh # how to configure to use the Globus-GASS(1.1.x) GASS_DIR=/usr/local/globus-install-1.1.1/development/mips-sgi-irix6.5-64_nothreads_standard_debug SSL_LIB=/usr/local/ssl/lib configure --with-ssl=$SSL_LIB --with-gass=$GASS_DIR/include,$GASS_DIR/lib 2. Run 'make' 3. Run testing program: There is one read testing program called 'gass_read' in the 'test' directory. It does whole file read through HTTP protocal. The URL is hard coded as http://hdf/GLOBUS/a.h5 The writing really depends on your web server. You have to set up your server in right way to accept writing in files. We have tested it using Apache Server(1.3.12) without authentication. If you need more details about our testing, please contact us. There is another program called 'gass_append' used for experiments. It does not work for current Globus-GASS.