Threadsafe HDF5 Functions

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Wed, 03/23/2011 - 12:29 pm

I am in the process of migrating a large amount of data from an in-house data format to HDF5 to use the HDF5XOP, which I really like. However, I run my code using MultiThread, and I just realized that the built-in tools for HDF5 are not Threadsafe.

I don't know if this is a low level problem with the HDF5 code, or if it could be easily made threadsafe. Either way, it would go a long way to helping my work run faster.

Thanks!
-t
It's not a low-level problem with the HDF5 library but it's also not easy to change.

Unfortunately, because of other priorities, you won't see this in the near future.

March 23, 2011 at 03:30 pm - Permalink