Installation instructions for Parallel HDF5
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1. Overview
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This file contains instructions for the installation of parallel HDF5 (PHDF5).
It is assumed that you are familiar with the general installation steps as
described in the INSTALL file. Get familiar with that file before trying
the parallel HDF5 installation.
The remaining of this section explains the requirements to run PHDF5.
Section 2 shows quick instructions for some well know systems. Section 3
explains the details of the installation steps. Section 4 shows some details
of running the parallel test suites.
1.1. Requirements
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PHDF5 requires an MPI compiler with MPI-IO support and a POSIX compliant
(Ref. 1) parallel file system. If you don't know yet, you should first consult
with your system support staff of information how to compile an MPI program,
how to run an MPI application, and how to access the parallel file system.
There are sample MPI-IO C and Fortran programs in the appendix section of
"Sample programs". You can use them to run simple tests of your MPI compilers
and the parallel file system.
1.2. Further Help
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If you still have difficulties installing PHDF5 in your system, please send
mail to
help@hdfgroup.org
In your mail, please include the output of "uname -a". If you have run the
"configure" command, attach the output of the command and the content of
the file "config.log".
2. Quick Instruction for known systems
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The following shows particular steps to run the parallel HDF5 configure for
a few machines we've tested. If your particular platform is not shown or
somehow the steps do not work for yours, please go to the next section for
more detailed explanations.
2.1. Know parallel compilers
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HDF5 knows several parallel compilers: mpicc, hcc, mpcc, mpcc_r. To build
parallel HDF5 with one of the above, just set CC as it and configure.
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