Rob, thanks for reading it and I can see your point. I'll try to be more precise in the next revision. My misery scale was modeled after Dante's circles of hell and I'd place parallel file systems somewhere among the first three (Limbo, Lust, Gluttony). That's still pretty comfy compared to the poor souls caught on levels seven to nine (Violence, Fraud, Treachery). Just picture yourself dropping an HDF5 file into something like HDFS and hope to do anything useful (other than copy or delete) with it.
Best, G. -----Original Message----- From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Latham Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:52 PM To: HDF Users Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] RESTful HDF5 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:39:34AM -0600, Gerd Heber wrote: > In this document, we specify a REST interface for HDF5 data stores. > We describe HDF5 resources, URIs, and resource representations, and > show a simple example of how to use this interface to populate an HDF5 store. I was struck by this line in your introduction: The transplantation of a self-contained, natively formatted file from a POSIX-compliant file system into an environment that favors contiguous I/O on large blocks and penalizes or lacks small-scale random I/O is a daunting task. Sure sounds like you are talking about a parallel file system there! ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Lab, IL USA _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
