Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE 16.1: An example of the main objects in the HDF5 data model.
FIGURE 16.2: An overview of a simple 3D dataset's structure.
An HDF5 dataset's dataspace describes the number of dimensions of the
array (or its \rank") and can range in dimensionality from 0 dimensions (a sin-
gle element) up to 32 dimensions. Each dimension can be a fixed or unlimited
size, and unlimited dimensions allow any edge of the array to be expanded.
