Chapter 11
Additional Resources

These documents supplement the HDF5 User’s Guide and provide additional detailed information for the use and tuning of specific HDF5 features.

           
HDF5 Examples     Code examples by API.
 
Chunking in HDF5     Structuring the use of chunking and tuning it for performance.
 
Using the Direct Chunk Write Function     Describes another way that chunks can be written to datasets.
 
Copying Committed Datatypes with H5Ocopy     Describes how to copy to another file a dataset that uses a committed datatype or an object with an attribute that uses a committed datatype so that the committed datatype in the destination file can be used by multiple objects.
 
Metadata Caching in HDF5     Managing the HDF5 metadata cache and tuning it for performance.
 
HDF5 Dynamically Loaded Filters   Describes how an HDF5 application can apply a filter that is not registered with the HDF5 Library.
 
HDF5 File Image Operations   Describes how to work with HDF5 files in memory. Disk I/O is not required when file images are opened, created, read from, or written to.
 
Modified Region Writes   Describes how to set write operations for in-memory files so that only modified regions are written to storage. Available when the Core (Memory) VFD is used.
 
Using Identifiers     Describes how identifiers behave and how they should be treated.
 
Using UTF-8 Encoding in
HDF5 Applications
    Describes the use of UTF-8 Unicode character encodings in HDF5 applications.
 
Freeing Memory Allocated
by the HDF5 Library
    Describes how inconsistent memory management can cause heap corruption or resource leaks and possible solutions.
 
HDF5 Glossary     A glossary of terms.