HDF5 User’s Guide

HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 User’s Guide for Release 1.8 | And in this document, the HDF5 User’s Guide from Release 1.4.5: Files Datasets Datatypes Dataspaces Groups References Attributes Property Lists Error Handling Filters Caching Chunking Mounting Files Performance Debugging Environment DDL

# A User's Guide for HDF5
Release 1.4.5

This document is the HDF5 User’s Guide from HDF5 Release 1.4.5. A completely new HDF5 User’s Guide is available for the current release.

The following documents formed the original, loosely organized, user's guide to the HDF5 library.

HDF5 Files |  | A guide to the H5F interface.
Datasets |  | A guide to the H5D interface.
Datatypes |  | A guide to the H5T interface.
Dataspaces |  | A guide to the H5S interface.
Groups |  | A guide to the H5G interface.
References and Identifiers |  | A guide to the H5R and H5I interfaces.
Attributes |  | A guide to the H5A interface.
Property Lists |  | A guide to the H5P interface.
Error Handling |  | A guide to the H5E interface.
Filters |  | A guide to the H5Z interface.
Caching |  | A guide for meta and raw data caching.
Dataset Chunking |  | A guide to the issues and pitfalls of dataset chunking.
Mounting Files |  | A guide to mounting files containing external HDF5 datasets.
Performance |  | A guide to performance issues and analysis tools.
Debugging |  | A guide to debugging HDF5 API calls.
Environment Variables and Configuration Parameters |  | A list of HDF5 environment variables and configuration parameters.
DDL for HDF5 |  | A DDL in BNF for HDF5.

HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 User’s Guide for Release 1.8 | And in this document, the HDF5 User’s Guide from Release 1.4.5: Files Datasets Datatypes Dataspaces Groups References Attributes Property Lists Error Handling Filters Caching Chunking Mounting Files Performance Debugging Environment DDL