Hi everybody, I have some technical questions about filters:
1 - Why aren't filters yet supported with parallel I/O? Is it because a filter is applied to each chunk separated and with parallel I/O is possible that parts of the same chunk could be read or written by multiple processes and it would require a lot of overhead to manage it? The message that the library gives me is "Parallel I/O does not support filters yet", will the support be extended soon? 2 - Reading about the VOL I understood that the VOL plugin assigned to a fapl is called just after the public API. If this is correct the data pipeline, and with it enabled filters, should be done within the VOL or after the VOL sent the request to something else (e.g., Native VOL, under VOL, network VOL). I'm wrong? I got suspicious reading this [1] presentation, in particular slide 104. I will really appreciate any help you can provide, Nicola. [1] http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/files/2013/07/HDF5-Parallel.pdf -- Nicola Cadenelli Phone (IT) +39 334 6550271 Office (DE) +49 2461 6196 475 Skype: nicolacdnll _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. Hdf-forum@lists.hdfgroup.org http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
