The Hierarchicial Data Format (HDF) project provides file formats and software for scientific data management. HDF5 libraries provide modules of SCIRun's DataIO package the ability to read HDF5 data.
HDF5 libraries must be built from their source code. SCIRun supports HDF5 versions 1.6.x.
HDF5 must be installed before building SCIRun
HDF5 must be built thread safe—HDF5 binary distributions that are not thread safe cannot be used with SCIRun.
SCIRun must be configured to support HDF5. See “SCIRun HDF5 Configure Options” for information on configuring SCIRun to use HDF5.
Download and unpack the HDF5 source code distribution:
Web browser download:
Unpack. In a terminal window type:
tar -x -z -f hdf5-1.6.4.tar.gz