[Hdf-forum] HDF5 file as a binary stream ?

[Werner Benger]

Hi Cyril,

  this has been done as part of the German TIKSL project
( http://www.zib.de/visual/projects/TIKSL/ ) with the creation
of the HDF5 Streaming VFD driver, which as of now is available
through

	http://hdf5-addons.origo.ethz.ch/

It is however currently not actively worked on, so might require
some code cleanup and revision, though it was recently working with
HDF5 1.8 .

It does not use MPI, but directly operates on TCP sockets. Thereby
it does not conflict with an MPI application and can be used within
some MPI-parallelized code without affecting that one.

Cheers,
	Werner


On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:47:08 +0100, Giraudon Cyril <cyril.giraudon at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have read HDF5 files can be in-memory structure.
>
> That said, is it be possible to the retrieve this HDF5 file as a binary
> array and send it by the network (as a float array with MPI for instance) ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Cyril.
>
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