Members of the HDF5 users community can register VFDs for use with HDF5.
To register a VFD please contact The HDF Helpdesk with the following information:
- Contact information for the developer requesting a new identifier
- Short description of the new VFD
- Links to any relevant information including licensing information
Here is the current policy regarding VFD identifier assignment:
Please contact the maintainer of a VFD for help implementing the plugin.
List of VFDs Registered with The HDF Group
| Driver | Driver Identifier | Search Name* | Short Description | URL | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDA GPU | 512 | gds | The HDF5 GPUDirect Storage VFD is a Virtual File Driver (VFD) for HDF5 that can be used to interface with Nvidia's GPUDirect Storage (GDS) API. The driver is built as a plugin library that is external to HDF5. | https://github.com/hpc-io/vfd-gds | Suren Byna (sbyna at lbl dot gov) |
| GDAL vsil | 513 | vsil | The HDF5 GDAL vsil Storage VFD is a Virtual File Driver (VFD) for the GDAL HDF5 driver that can be used to access any file supported by the GDAL Virtual File System Interface (https://gdal.org/user/virtual_file_systems.html). | https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/frmts/hdf5/hdf5vfl.h | Even Rouault (even dot rouault at spatialys dot com) |
| Unidata/UCAR NetCDF-C ByteRange | 514 | byte-range | The Unidata H5FDhttp.[ch] VFD driver is used to support accessing remote files using the HTTP byte range mechanism. It is part of the Unidata Netcdf-C library. | https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/blob/main/libhdf5/H5FDhttp.c | Dennis Heimbigner (dmh at ucar.edu) |
* The Search Name provides a mechanism for searching for a VFD.
--- Last Modified: February 15, 2023 | 10:57 AM