This tutorial is designed for users with some HDF5 experience. It will cover advanced features of the HDF5 library that can be used to achieve better I/O performance and more efficient storage. The following HDF5 features will be discussed: partial I/O; compression and other filters, including new n-bit and scale+offset filters and data storage options. Significant time will be devoted to the discussion of complex HDF5 datatypes such as strings, variable-length datatypes, array datatypes, and compound datatypes.
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