In this episode of Call the Doctor, John Readey introduced GitHub Codespaces and demonstrates their use with the h5pyd repository. Codespaces allow running a repository in the cloud without local setup. The speaker sets up a Codespace for the h5pyd repository, demonstrating its integration with VS Code, terminal access, and execution of h5pyd commands like hsinfo and python test. They showcase practical examples such as reading and writing HDF5 files, leveraging the S3 interface for data acce...

In this episode of Call the Doctor, Engineering Director Dana Robinson talks about the potential for a HDF5 1.16 release and discusses some HDF5 roadmap options with community members.This session was recorded on June 6, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions int...

In this episode of Call the Doctor, Scot Breitenfeld went over recent benchmarks comparing all versions of HDF5, and talked through some of the development that caused changes in those benchmarks. Scot was also available for community questions.This session was recorded on May 28, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s...

The HDF Group's John Readey walked through using Github Codespaces with HSDS.This session was recorded on May 14, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions intended to help users tackle real-world HDF problems from a common cold to severe headaches and offer relief where ...

In this "Call the Doctor" session hosted by Aleksander Jelenak, the agenda was opened for questions regarding h5py or Cloud optimization of HDF files. The discussion delveed into understanding the applicability of techniques used in h5py to the VOL connector for HSDS, emphasizing the nuances between Python and C approaches. Additionally, considerations are made regarding read-only implementations, the trade-offs of network latency, and the potential for compressing data to enhance performance...

The HDF Group’s Director of Engineering Dana Robinson hosted Call the Doctor on Tuesday, May 7. He talked about recent CVEs (more info) and some plans for 1.14.5.This session was recorded on May 7, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions intended to help users tackle re...

This Call the Doctor, presented by The HDF Group's executive director, Gerd Heber, presents the Zettelkasten (“slip-box”) is a method of note-taking and knowledge management for writers that was (re-)invented many times and more recently developed by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The Zettelkasten is a collection of notes stored on separate index cards. The notes are linked in a network of references, forming a knowledge graph. HDF5 has everything necessary to create a nifty (digital)...

Scot Breitenfeld hosted Call the Doctor on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Scot answered some community questions about subfiling in HDF5. Director of Engineering Dana Robinson talked briefly about the recent HDF5 1.14.4 release.Communications Coordinator Lori Cooper talked about some upcoming community events: 2024 HDF5 User Group Meeting, August 5-7 in Chicago.Upcoming webinar: h5rdmtoolbox – A Python Research Data Management Toolbox for HDF5, Presented by Matthias Probst from the Karlsr...

Aleksandar Jelenak hosted Call the Doctor on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. He talked about last week’s h5py 3.11 release and current interesting issues and PRs. Aleksandar has a background as a scientist working with geospatial and geoscience data, and now works at The HDF Group to make HDF5 and related tools more effective for other scientists.This session happened on April 16, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Gro...

The HDF Group’s John Readey talked about using HSDS with Github Codespaces.This session happened on April 9, 2024. You can also watch this episode online.Call the Doctor is a series of weekly, unscripted, live events! The HDF Group’s staff members will answer attendee questions and, for example, go over the previous week’s HDF Forum posts. The HDF Clinics are free sessions intended to help users tackle real-world HDF problems from a common cold to severe headaches and offer relief where that’...