November 7 HDF5 Working Group Meeting

November 7 HDF5 Working Group Meeting

Agenda (same as last time!):

From Elena, re: sparse RFC

I suggest that tomorrow I will go through the document and we will discuss and resolve some outstanding questions. The most important ones:

  1. Should we use H5Pset_layout or introduce new H5set_sparse_chunk and H5Pset_struct_chunk functions.? Please remember that in the very first RFC I was advocating for reuse of the existing functions, but THG developers voted for new APIs.

  2. Should we create special filter functions for structured chunks or use versioned functions that are applicable to both dense and structured chunks?

  3. New direct chunk routines. Quincey has reservations about them while we do have use cases from the Synchrotron community. I think bio-informatics community also has use case for VL data storage.

November 7, 2024, 10:00 a.m. central time zone

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