[Paraview] Data set Size limit in ParaView/HDF5

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks for getting the bug report in. I was poking around the ParaView source and it does not look straight forward at all to substitute in a prebuilt HDF5 library (system hdf5). I can not even find the CMake Variables that might let me do this. I tried so simply substitute the latest stable HDF5 into the source tree but as I figured CMake threw lots of errors. If you give me a gentle nudge I might be able to help a bit. We are really being held back by this with our current data sets.

Thanks
Mike Jackson

On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Sounds good. I'll work on updating the HDF5 version for next release.
> 
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15106
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Michael Jackson
> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>> The current version of ParaView (4.2.1) uses a fairly old version of HDF5 (API version 1.8.9). This version has a nasty bug on OS X that will not allow HDF5 to read a data set that is larger than 4GB (2^32). This is due to a bug in the configuration process that incorrectly identifies a "size_t" as being unsigned 32 bit integer on Darwin instead of a 64 bit unsigned integer. What is the possibility of getting a newer HDF5 included in ParaView for the next release?
>> 
>> BTW. a new release of HDF5 is coming in a few weeks. This would make a great opportunity to get this fixed with the latest version of HDF5.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Mike Jackson
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