Hdf5-iotest & your HPC questions on Call the Doctor with Scot Breitenfeld 6/27/23

In this session of Call the Doctor, Scot Breitenfeld discusses a program called hdf5-iotest available on GitHub. The program helps explore data layout and performance optimization in HDF5. It allows users to experiment with parameters such as data dimensionality, chunking, metadata size, and MPIO operation. The program generates results and timings for different combinations of these parameters. Scot also mentions additional research additions, including support for collective metadata apis, compression filters, split I/O driver, and mpio driver. He demonstrates the effectiveness of the log-based VOL and the impact of tuning parameters with the DAOS VOL. Overall, the program aids in optimizing HDF5 performance and data organization.

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