<html> <head> <title> HDF5 User's Guide </title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <hr> <center> <table border=0 width=98%> <tr><td valign=top align=left> <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a> <br> <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a> <br> <a href="index.html">Other HDF5 documents and links</a> <br> <!-- <a href="Glossary.html">Glossary</a><br> --> </td> <td valign=top align=right> </td></tr> </table> </center> <hr> <center><h1>A User's Guide for HDF5</h1></center> <p>The following documents form a loosely organized user's guide to the HDF5 library. <p> <center> <table border=0> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Files.html">HDF5 Files</a> </td><td> </td> <td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5F</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Datasets.html">Datasets</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5D</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Datatypes.html">Datatypes</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5T</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Dataspaces.html">Dataspaces</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5S</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Groups.html">Groups</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5G</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="References.html">References and Identifiers</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5R</strong> and <strong>H5I</strong> interfaces. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Attributes.html">Attributes</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5A</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Properties.html">Property Lists</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5P</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Errors.html">Error Handling</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5E</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Filters.html">Filters</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the <strong>H5Z</strong> interface. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Caching.html">Caching</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide for meta and raw data caching. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Chunking.html">Dataset Chunking</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to the issues and pitfalls of dataset chunking. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="MountingFiles.html">Mounting Files</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to mounting files containing external HDF5 datasets. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Performance.html">Performance</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to performance issues and analysis tools. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Debugging.html">Debugging</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="Environment.html">Environment Variables and</a> <br> <a href="Environment.html">Configuration Parameters</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A list of HDF5 environment variables and configuration <br> parameters. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><a href="ddl.html">DDL for HDF5</a> </td><td></td><td valign=top>A DDL in BNF for HDF5. </td></tr> </table> </center> <br> <!-- <p>The following documents form a loosely organized developer's guide to aspects of the HDF5 library. (Some of the following documents may be rather out of date as they were working papers for design goals.) <ul> <li><a href="Version.html">Version Numbers</a> - A description of HDF5 version numbers. <li><a href="IOPipe.html">I/O Pipeline</a> - A description of the raw data I/O pipeline. <li><a href="ExternalFiles.html">Working with External Files</a> - A guide to the use of multiple files with HDF5. <li><a href="Big.html">Large Datasets</a> - A guide to accessing large datasets on small computers. <li><a href="MemoryManagement.html">Memory Management</a> - A white paper about memory management issues in HDF5. <li><a href="Coding.html">Coding Style</a> - A white paper about coding style in the HDF5 library code. <li><a href="compat.html">HDF4/HDF5 Compatibility</a> - A white paper about compatibility issues between HDF4 and HDF5. <li><a href="study.html">Chunking Performance Study</a> - A white paper describing the HDF5 chunking performance. </ul> --> <hr> <center> <table border=0 width=98%> <tr><td valign=top align=left> <a href="H5.intro.html">Introduction to HDF5</a> <br> <a href="RM_H5Front.html">HDF5 Reference Manual</a> <br> <a href="index.html">Other HDF5 documents and links</a> <br> <!-- <a href="Glossary.html">Glossary</a><br> --> </td> <td valign=top align=right> </td></tr> </table> </center> <hr> <address> <table width=100% border=0> <tr><td align=left valign=top> <a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a> <br> Last modified: 19 January 2001 <br> Describes HDF5 Release 1.5, Unreleased Development Branch </td><td align=right valign=top> <a href="Copyright.html">Copyright</a> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>