Release information for parallel HDF5
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+) Current release supports independent access to fixed dimension datasets
   only.

+) The comm and info arguments of H5Pset_mpi are not used.  All parallel
   I/O are done via MPI_COMM_WORLD.  Access_mode for H5Pset_mpi can be
   H5ACC_INDEPENDENT only.

+) This release of parallel HDF5 has been tested on IBM SP2 and SGI
   Origin 2000 systems.  It uses the ROMIO version of MPIO interface
   for parallel I/O supports.

+) Useful URL's.
   Parallel HDF webpage: "http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Parallel_HDF/"
   ROMIO webpage: "http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/thakur/romio/"

+) Some to-do items for future releases
      support for Intel Teraflop platform.
      support for unlimited dimension datasets.
      support for file access via a communicator besides MPI_COMM_WORLD.
      support for collective access to datasets.
      support for independent create/open of datasets.

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Last updated: Feb 16, 1998.
