HDF-EOS Workshop VI Final Agenda

December 4 - 5, 2002

Last updated December 19, 2002 

We have made every attempt to post all presentations from HDF/HDF-EOS Workshop VI online. Most are available in at least two formats (PowerPoint and PDF), however a few are only available in PDF format. In order to help you choose the viewing format approriate for your needs, we have also posted the size of each presentation next to the format. The list of available formats appears below the title of each presentation in the agenda table below.

Time
Length
Name
Organization
Tutorial Title
Description
9:00
45 minutes
Robert McGrath
NCSA
Introduction to HDF5 for HDF4 Users
PowerPoint  [96 KB]    PDF  [188 KB]
HDF5 is a complete redesign and reimplementation, so users familiar with HDF4 will find themselves unfamiliar with HDF5. HDF5 can do everything HDF4 can do, although the details are different.

This tutorial is designed to present a series of common cases of HDF4, and show how to do the same thing using HDF5.

For example, this tutorial will show how to use HDF5 to do similar data operations to HDF4:
       •  Vgroups
       •  SD datasets
       •  Attributes and annotations
       •  Raster Images
       •  Vdata (tables)

This tutorial is intended for people who are very familiar with HDF4 but have never used HDF5, or would like to learn to use HDF5 most effectively.
9:45
45 minutes
Elena Pourmal
NCSA
Introduction to HDF5 Data Model, Programming Model and Library APIs
PDF  [856 KB]
This Tutorial gives a brief introduction to HDF5 for people who have never used it. It covers the HDF5 Data Model, describes the HDF5 Programming Model and introduces most commonly used C and F90 APIs. The tutorial will prepare participants for further self-study of HDF5 and hands-on sessions.
10:30
1 hour
Ray Milburn
L3 Communications
Introduction to HDF-EOS Library, Programmer's Interface and Examples
PowerPoint  [1.5 MB]    PDF  [630 KB]
  
11:30
45 minutes
Elena Pourmal
NCSA
Advanced HDF5: Overview of Parallel HDF5 and Performance Tuning in HDF5 Library
PDF  [624 KB]
HDF5 is designed to work well on high performance parallel systems and clusters. This tutorial will review the high performance features of HDF5, including:

       •  Design of Parallel HDF5 Library
       •  Parallel HDF5 Programming Model and Environment
       •  Performance and performance tuning for sequentail and parallel HDF5 applications
       •  Benchmarks results for different platfroms including LINUX clusters

It is desired that participants are familiar with MPI and MPI I/0 and have a basic knowledge of sequential HDF5 Library. The lecture will prepare them for the Parallel I/O hands-on session.
 
12:15
75 min
Lunch   (provided)
 
Time
Length
Name
Organization
Tutorial Title
Description
1:30
2 hours
 
NCSA Staff
Hands-on: Four concurrent sessions:
Introduction to HDF5
Advanced HDF5 Topics: Complex Datatypes, Selections, Performance Tuning, etc.
Parallel HDF5
High-level Interfaces for HDF5 (Image, Table)
 
All NCSA HDF5 Tutorials can be viewed on NCSA's web site
   
3:30
30 minutes
 
NCSA Staff
Peter Cao (NCSA)
Two concurrent sessions:
Individual Consulting, Discussion, Q&A
HDF View
   Link to NCSA HDF View site
   
4:00
30 minutes
 
NCSA Staff
Steve Tanner (UAH)
Two concurrent sessions:
Individual Consulting, Discussion, Q&A
Algorithm Development and Mining System (ADaM)
PowerPoint   [247 KB]    PDF   [460 KB]
   
4:30
30 minutes
 
NCSA Staff
Steve Tanner (UAH)
Two concurrent sessions:
Individual Consulting, Discussion, Q&A
Earth Science Markup Language (ESML)
PowerPoint   [404 KB]   PDF   [581 KB]
   
 

Thursday December 5, 2002 

Two concurrent sessions were held at the HDF/HDF-EOS Workshop on Thursday: a Tool Demonstration and Training session and an HDF/HDF-EOS Standards session. The agendas for these two sessions are listed in separate tables below because the presentation times were not synchronized as in prior concurrent sessions. The HDF/HDF-EOS Standards session agenda appears first followed by that of the Tool Demonstration and Training session.

Thursday December 5, 2002: HDF/HDF-EOS Standards Session

Time
Length
Name
Organization
Presentation Title
Description
8:30
30 min
Richard Ullman
NASA ESDIS Project
Introduction & ESDIS Status & Plans, HDF-EOS Web Site
PowerPoint   [1.7 MB]
 
9:00
45 min
Mike Folk
NCSA
HDF Status and Development
PowerPoint   [844 KB]
 
9:45
30 min
Larry Klein
L3 Communications
HDF-EOS Library Development and Status
PowerPoint   [93 KB]   PDF   [142 KB]
 
10:15
15 min
Break
10:30
1 hour
Elena Pourmal and Staff
NCSA
HDF5 I/O Performance
PDF   [99 KB]
 
11:30
30 minutes
Robert McGrath
NCSA
Transition from HDF4 to HDF5
PowerPoint   [803 KB]   PDF   [130 KB]
 
 
12:00
60 min
Lunch   (provided)
 
Time
Length
Name
Organization
Presentation Title
Description
1:00
30 minutes
Richard Ullman
NASA ESDIS Project
SEEDS (Strategy for Evolution of ESE Data Systems
PowerPoint   [834 KB]   PDF   [192 KB]
 
1:30
30 minutes
Alan Goldberg, Chad Fox
MITRE Corporation
Selecting HDF5 as the Standard for NPOESS
PowerPoint   [480 KB]   PDF   [927 KB]
 
2:00
1 hour
Richard Ullman, Robert McGrath, Larry Klein Ask the Experts Discussion
Open discussion about HDF and HDF-EOS future directions
3:00
15 minutes
Richard Ullman
NASA ESDIS Project
Workshop Wrap-up
 
 

Thursday December 5, 2002: Tools Demonstrations and Training Session:

Time
Length
Name
Organization
Presentation Title
Description
8:00
2 hours
Mark Nestler
Global Science and Technology, Inc.
EOS Data Gateway (EDG)
PowerPoint   [147 KB]   PDF   [183 KB]
 
10:00
15 min
Break
10:15
45 min
James Johnson
Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Web-based Hierarchical Ordering Mechanism (WHOM), GES DAAC HDF Visualzation Tools (HDFLook et al)
PowerPoint   [6.9 MB]   PDF   [2.7 MB]
 
11:00
30 minutes
Liping Di
George Mason University
NASA Web GIS Server (NWGISS)
PowerPoint   [1.4 MB]   PDF   [775 KB]
 
11:30
30 min
Steve Tanner
ITSC/UAH
HDF-EOS Web-based Subsetter (HEW)
PowerPoint   [3.3 MB]   PDF   [3.9 MB]
 

12:00
60 minutes
Lunch   (provided)

Time
Length
Name
Organization
Presentation Title
Description
1:00
30 minutes
Charles Thomson, Linda Hunt
NASA LaRC ASDC
Tools for MISR Data (misr_view, hdf_scan)
PowerPoint   [33 KB]   PDF   [49 KB]
 
1:30
30 minutes
Ray Milburn
L3 Communications
HDF-EOS-to-GeoTIFF Converter (HEG)
PowerPoint   [6.9 MB]   PDF   [427 KB]
 
2:00
30 minutes
Pedro Vicente
NCSA
HDF Explorer
PowerPoint   [194 KB]   PDF   [183 KB]
 
2:30
30 minutes
Dave Santek
University of Wisconsin-Madison
McIDAS Lite
PowerPoint   [2.3 MB]   PDF   [886 KB]
 
3:00
15 min
Break
3:15
30 minutes
Chris Torrence
Reserch Systems, Inc.
HDF5 Tools in IDL; HDF4 and HDF-EOS 2.x Functionality in IDL
PowerPoint   [1.7 MB]   PDF   [1.25 MB]
 
3:45
30 min
Matt Savoie
NSIDC DAAC
EOS Imaging Tool
 
4:15
30 minutes
Dr. Patrick Moran
NASA Ames ResearcH Center
Programmable EOS Visualization with Python
PowerPoint   [375 KB]   PDF   [184 KB]
 
4:45
30 minutes
John Readey
Intel Corporation
Intel Array Visualizer
PowerPoint  [713 KB]   PDF  [600 KB]
 
 
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