Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Integrating HDF with the SRB
Peter Cao and Bob Mcgrath, NCSA
Michael Wan, SDSC
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CST
Room 3414 (REL) Beckman Institute

NCSA and SDSC are collaborating to integrate the NCSA HDF5 library and file format with the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB). HDF5 is widely used in the scientific community, and the SRB is a powerful technology for collection management and distributed access, including access to HDF5 files. Unfortunately, access to individual objects (or parts of objects) in HDF files is not well supported in the SRB. Since HDF files can be extremely large, partial access is critical for many applications. This presentation will describe a joint NCSA/SCSC project whose goal is to provide effective object-level access to HDF5.

This seminar will be presented live from both NCSA and SDSC and remotely via the Access Grid.

The Cyberinfrastructure Seminar Series is a set of presentations on cyberinfrastructure and related research organized by NCSA and SDSC. These seminars are available on site at the presenting institution and remotely via the Access Grid. For more details regarding the AG venue for this seminar, please refer to: http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=9255. All Access Grid sites are welcome to participate in this seminar. If you have any questions, contact Jennie File, NCSA Training & Outreach Group.