H5Part development and discussion

[Mr Prabhat <prabhat AT hpcrd.lbl.gov>]

If your data is in H5Part/H5Block format, things should be pretty easy to get 
going. Might be better if we can chat offline on what exactly you might want 
to do down the line.

Prabhat

On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:

> Prabhat
> 
> That sounds interesting to play with. Although I've read about fastbit and 
> follow threads on the list to keep myself informed. I've still not used it 
> on anything real. Would there be a step learning curve to go from zero to a 
> test app?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JB
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mr Prabhat [mailto:prabhat AT hpcrd.lbl.gov] 
> Sent: 02 February 2012 19:07
> To: Biddiscombe, John A.
> Cc: Mark Howison; Achim Gsell; h5part AT lists.psi.ch
> Subject: Re: [H5part] bounding boxes
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Yes, if you are only going to do spatial subsets, bboxes should work just 
> fine. FastBit enables you do queries on any variable, or combination of 
> variables. John Wu and I have been working on FastQuery which enables one 
> to apply FastBit to H5Part, generic HDF5 files and NetCDF files. Happy to 
> share the code with you if you'd like.
> 
> 
> Prabhat
> 
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:
> 
>> Thank Mark, I'm interested in using fastbit as well, but in this case 
>> since I already know the BBoxes, I wondered if there was a standard way of 
>> using them. I've begun integrating this into my vtkH5PartReader for 
>> paraview and in one of the simulations, I will move the code into H5Part 
>> proper once it's finished if you would like it.
>> 
>> It's only useful if each process was using a regular hyperslab of 
>> particles (which we are).
>> 
>> JB
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Howison [mailto:mhowison AT brown.edu] 
>> Sent: 02 February 2012 16:25
>> To: Achim Gsell
>> Cc: Biddiscombe, John A.; h5part AT lists.psi.ch; Prabhat Prabhat
>> Subject: Re: [H5part] bounding boxes
>> 
>> Hi John, you can perform fast range queries on a H5Part data set by 
>> creating a corresponding FastBit index. I'm cc'ing Prabhat who can provide 
>> you with more information about a library developed at LBL to integrate 
>> FastBit indices into H5Part files, although I don't know if it is publicly 
>> available. Mark
>> 
>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Achim Gsell wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Does H5Part have any built in support for storing/querying/extracting 
>>>> bounds of regions of particles.
>>> 
>>> No. But filed an enhancement request in our tracker. We may implement it 
>>> in a future release.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Achim
>>> 
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