.. _pkg_hdf5:

HDF5
----

HDF5 (hierarchial data format, version 5) is a file format for storing
large amount of data, in particular multi-dimensional arrays of
numerical data and associated metadata.

+------------------+---------------+
| System           | Package       |
+==================+===============+
| BSD Ports        | science/hdf5  |
+------------------+---------------+
| Debian/Ubuntu    | libhdf5-dev   |
+------------------+---------------+
| Homebrew         | hdf5          |
+------------------+---------------+
| RedHat/CentOS    | libhdf5-devel |
+------------------+---------------+