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Some organizations who use HDF5

AER, Inc

Using HDF5 in satellite meteorology (NPOESS). (5/02)

Aberdeen Test Center

Uses HDF5 to store test data collected at the Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Maryland, USA. (3/02)

Antenna Development Corporation

We are always looking for better ways to visualize the radiation fields of our antennas (on small spacecraft).

APAC National Facility and Australian National Facility

Aqualinc Research Ltd., New Zealand

Using HDF5 in field of groundwater hydrology. (8/04)

Argonne National Laboratory

Using HDF5 in field of Accelerator/Plasma Science. (9/05)

Argonne National Laboratory Globus Project

The Globus Project at Argonne National Laboratory develops fundamental technologies needed to build computational grids.

Argonne National Laboratory NeXus Project

Argonne National Laboratory's NeXus project uses HDF4 but it is also being tested with HDF5. NeXus is a data format for the exchange of neutron and synchrotron scattering data.

ASCI/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes

See Flash.

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Using HDF5 in field of Neutron and X-Ray Scattering. (6/03)

Baylor College of Medicine

The National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (NCMI) is a national facility supported mainly by the NIH National Center for Research Resources. Other support includes the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the National Library of Medicine, the National Science Foundation, the R. Welch Foundation, the Agouron Institute and the WM Keck Foundation.

The long-term goal of the NCMI is to establish the infrastructure for fast, routine, atomic structure determination of subcellular complexes by electron cryo-microscopy and computer reconstruction. Our emphasis is on specimens that cannot currently be studied by conventional structural techniques such as x-ray crystallography. The ultimate outcome of our research is a three-dimensional image of the complex that we can use for design of drugs and vaccines for a variety of diseases. (8/02)

Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program

Using HDF5 in field of Pharmacoepidemiology. HDF5 is used to monitor and analyze drug usage for purposes of drug safety, using Python (through the PyTables module) to access HDF5. (4/05)

Cactus

Supports HDF5 in the Cactus code, which is an open source problem solving environment designed for scientists and engineers.

California Air Resources Board

Uses HDF5 for their Aircraft Emissions Database

CalTech

The Bhattacharya group, ME, Division of Engineering at CalTech, is using HDF5 in the field of Ferroelectric materials. (2/04)

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ontario, Canada

Using HDF5 in Atmospheric radiation. (EOS User, 4/02)

Cardiff University

Using HDF5 in problem solving environments/grid computing. (10/04)

CAREERI, CAS, China

Using HDF and HDF5 in field of desertification. (2/05)

CCMC/NASA/GSFC

The SWX: Space Weather Explorer from CCMC/NASA/GSFC is a program written to visualize in 3D output from space weather models. (EOS User, 03/02)

CEI

CEI offers a suite of tools for engineering and scientific simulation, including meshing, plotting, animation and data visualization. The company's software can be run on every type of computer, from laptops to clusters to supercomputers. It interfaces seamlessly to all popular CAE software and most scientific research codes, and can drive the most advanced VR displays. CEI has corporate headquarters in Apex, N.C., and authorized distributors around the world.

Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State

Using HDF5 in numerical relativity. (7/04)

Center for Global Environmental Research

Using HDF5 to archive meteorological datasets and other monitoring data. (7/03)

Center for Space Science and Applied Research, China (6/02)

Central Michigan University

Using HDF5 in Mesoscale Modeling. (7/05)

Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Senegal

Using HDF5 for land use and land cover maps in Senegal. (6/02)

Centro de Percepcion Remota y SIG, Chile (EOS User, 4/02)

CESBIO Unite Mixte CNES-CNRS-UPS-IRD, France

Develop software functions to process ASTER, VEGETATION and other satellite data within the "Sud-Ouest" project, dealing with carbon and water fluxes modeling at meso-scale. (EOS User, 5/02)

CNRS/IPSL, France

Project/Field: meteorology, environment (EOS User, 9/03)

CINECA, Italy (3/04)

C.I.R.A. - Italian Aerospace Research Center

Using HDF5 in field of Computational AeroAcoustics. (6/05)

CIRAD

Using HDF5 for GIS and remote sensing applications in Guinean Research Institute Support. (10/02)

CSIC-Institute of Earth Sciences, Spain

Using HDF5 in field of geophysics. (EOS User, 4/05)

CONABIO, Mexico

Using HDF5 in MODIS fire detection (5/04)

CONAE - Comision Nacional De Actividades Espaciales, Argentina

Using HDF5 in remote sensing. (4/05)

Department of Energy's ASC project

ASC (Advanced Simulation and Computing) is a Department of Energy program involving the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. ASC's goal is "to shift promptly from nuclear test-based methods to computational-based methods of ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of our nuclear weapons stockpile." These methods must achieve high-resolution, three-dimensional calculations of full-systems using high-fidelity physical models. The ASCI Data Models and Formats group (ASCI DMF) is working closely with NCSA on the development of HDF5 to address I/O and data sharability issues, to replace existing mesh data management software with a unified mesh API, and to replace storage formats with HDF5. This involves not only supporting ASC data requirements in the new HDF5 format, but also implementing the HDF5 IO library on the three multi-teraflop ASC machines.

Deutsche Bank

Using HDF5 in field of Financial Engineering. (4/04)

Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany

Using HDF5 in Satellite Climate Monitoring. (4/02)

Diamond Light Source

Using HDF5 in Synchrotron Science (using NeXus) (8/06)

Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

Using HDF5 in Antarctic Biological Oceanography. (EOS User, 7/04)

Dynamics Research Corporation, CA

Using HDF5 in electronics (Alliance/NPACI user). (5/02)

Ecole Centrale Nantes, France

Project/Field: SPH in Naval Hydrodynamics. (5/06)

Edith Cowan University, Australia

Using HDF5 in field of photonics. (6/04)

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Using HDF5 in numerical modeling of optical fibers. (6/05)

EWRE, ltd., Israel

Using HDF5 if field of groundwater flow and transport modeling - visualization. (10/04)

Freiburg Materials Research Center (11/07)

The service group Scientific Information Processing of the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) uses HDF for its Open Source Data Analysis Framework Pyphant, which uses HDF as native file format for saving scientific data and flow based data analysis algorithms.

Fudan University, Shanghai, China (EOS User, 6/02)

Gazi University, Turkey

Using HDF5 in field of mechanical engineering. (9/04)

Gemini Observatory

Using HDF5 in field of Adaptive Optics / Astronomy. (11/04)

Geological Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark

Using HDF5 in field of Hydrogeology. (6/03)

Geological Survey Of Austria

Using HDF5 in interpretation of Aeroelectromagnetic Data. (3/02)

GPS Laboratory, INHA University, South Korea

Using HDF5 with satellite imagery. (11/02)

GRAHI, Spain (1/07)

project - hydrology

Grassland Institute of CAAS, China

Using HDF5 for grassland monitoring. (EOS User, 6/04)

Hankyong National University, Korea

Using HDF4 and HDF5 in air pollution modeling. (EOS User, 10/05)

Hydrometeorological Research Centre Of Russia (RHMC)

Using HDF5 in Atmospheric Physics & Dynamical Meteorology. (5/02)

IBAMA, Brazil

Using HDF5 in remote sensing. (4/02)

INEEL

Using HDF5 in the Advanced Fuel Cycle program. (ASC User, 1/03)

INM & SAFNWC, Spain

Using HDF5 with meteorological images derived from SAFNWC for METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION. (6/03)

Ifremer, France

CERSAT, the processing and archiving facility for satellite data at Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea), is using HDF5. (HDF-EOS, 3/02)

Innovative Management & Technology Services (IMTS)

Using HDF5 in Scientific Data Visualization. (7/06)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (EOS User, 8/04)

Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

Using HDF5 in neutron scattering simulation/NeXus format. (8/02)

Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, University Karlsruhe, Germany

Using HDF5 on project to study arsenic groundwater contamination. (7/02)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Project: General Relativity - Black holes (11/06)

International Space Station (4/05)

ISAC, India

Project or Field: Engineering. (8/03)

ISRO, India (4/06)

Istanbul Technical University, Aerospace Department

Using HDF5 in field of Gas Dynamics. (1/05)

IWR, University of Heidelberg

Using HDF5 in Advanced Parallel Numerical Simulation (scalable I/O on Linux clusters). (7/02)

JSC Selmi

Project: development of magnetic mass spectrometers. (EOS User, 2/02)

The Joannopoulos Research Group at MIT

Physics department at MIT head by Professor John D. Joannopoulos. See MIT Photonic-Bands and Software for HDF5

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Using HDF5 in Aerospace Engineering. (10/05)

Kell S.R.L.

Uses HDF5 in GIS and Remote Sensing. (03/02)

KITWARE Inc.

Using HDF5 in medical image processing. (8/04)

Kongsberg Spacetec AS

Using HDF4 and HDF5 in remote sensing applications. (2/03)

Kyushu University

Using HDF5 in field of oceanography. (1/05)

Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics

See LCA Vision.

Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Modelization, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Using HDF5 in the study of the propagation of light and different phenomena about light in photonic crystals. (5/02)

Laboratorio de Fisica Interdisciplinaria, Depto. de Fisica, Universidad de Sonora

Using HDF5 in field of climatology and hydrology. (2/02)

Laboratory for Neural Computation

Uses HDF5 in field of bioengineering.

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Trying to parallellize (in MPI) the I/O of their ocean and atmosphere models, which is in sequential mode mostly using UNIDATA/UCAR's netCDF.

LandSAF

The Instituto de Meteorologia in Portugal is using HDF5 to store LandSAF products derived from METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION & EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEM satellite images. (2/06)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Applied Numerical Algorithms and Visualization Group

The Applied Numerical Algorithms Group and Visualization Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed the ChomboVis application, which uses HDF5. ChomboVis is a visualization tool for 2D and 3D AMR data sets. It is layered on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and provides a simple graphical user interface for interacting with a 2D or 3D data set.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Free-electron lasers, light sources (ASC User, 6/06)

LENS, Italy

Using HDF5 in field of physics. (1/05)

Limnological Institute SD RAS Irkutsk, Russia

Using HDF5 in hydrology and hydrophysics. (HDF-EOS & Alliance/NPACI User, 11/04)

Linac Coherent Light Source - Xray Free-Electron Laser (3/04)

The LCLS is a multi-institutional proposal for a single-pass x-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL) operating in the 1-15 � wavelength region, using electron beams.

LITA - POLITECNICO of Milan, Italy

Uses HDF5 in Water Resources Management - Computer Science.

Lockheed Martin (4/06)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Computational Fluid Dynamics) (ASC User, 3/03)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Parallel Architectures and Performance Team)

The Parallel Architectures and Performance Team investigates the issues that contribute to optimal application and computer system performance on extreme-scale advanced architectures. (ASC User, 7/02)

Los Alamos National Laborary (UPS Project)

The Unified Parallel Software (UPS) project's mission is to provide ASCI users with the resources needed to design and write effective physics simulations on high performance parallel processing platforms. (ASC User, 8/02)

Lund University, Division of Robotics, Sweden (6/02)

Lupine Logic, Inc.

Lupine Logic, Inc. is a commercial firm working within the NASA EOS program (primarily land data products) developing EOS operational ECS MODIS algorithms as well as exploring commercial applications of NASA EOS data products. They use both HDF4 and HDF5.

MAASIT, India

Project or Field: Thermal modelling and Analysis. (8/03)

The MathWorks

The MathWorks is a developer and supplier of software for technical computing and Model-Based Design. MATLAB, one of the core products from The Mathworks, includes support for HDF5.

Matrix Metals Limited

Matrix Metals Limited is an Australian copper producer that uses both HDF4 and HDF5 in earth science applications.

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (NIFTI Project), Canada

Using HDF5 in field of Medical Imaging. (11/03)

MEPhI, Russia

Using HDF5 in Astroparticle Physics, PAMELA. (8/06)

NASA Earth Science Enterprise

See HDF5-EOS.

NASA Glenn Research Center

We plan to use HDF as a platform-independent binary file format to store massive amounts of airplane engine simulation data for later analysis. Our tool, NPSS, or Numerical Propulsion Simulation System, allows multi-user, distributed simulations with the ability to hide proprietary codes. These simulations are then distributed to airframe manufacturers and other customers to link into their simulations. The storage of 0-D, 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D geometry data and engine parameters in a platform-independent data format is crucial to the ability to perform analyses and make use of this data in various applications, at various sites on various platforms.

NASA LaRC

Using HDF5 in Aerospace Engineering. (11/04)

National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Govt. of India

Use HDF5 for some of meteorological and satellite data. (10/05)

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

See Chombo

National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Brazil

Project or Field: Atmospheric Electricity Group (6/06)

National Ignition Facility

Target Diagnostics computer software development, gathering of data for NIF experiments. (ASC User, 10/04)

National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)

Using HDF5 in oceanography. (EOS User, 10/05)

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK (6/05)

NOCS has several large scale ocean modelling projects using low to high resolution global ocean and sea-ice models to investigate the physics underlying the ocean circulation and to understand its impact on biological systems and climate.

The high resolution ocean models, in particular, make good use of HDF5's chunking and compression facilities to store model output efficiently. They are able to use HDF5 with Ferret, by deriving "Ferret external functions", which can read HDF5 data directly. Helpful tips on doing this can be found at:

   http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/JRD/OCCAM/OME/?page=ferret

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Using HDF5 in Solid State Physics. (8/02)

National Satellite Meteorological Center, Beijing, China

Uses HDF in satellite remote sensing. (4/02)

Naval Postgraduate School, California

Project/Field: Atmospheric Remote Sensing. (5/03)

NCSR "Demokritos", Greece

Using HDF5 for neutron scattering data aqcuisition and analysis. (2/05)

Northwestern University, IL

Uses HDF5 in the field of astrophysics. (2/02)

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Using HDF5 with regards to radar. (2/05)

NPL, India

Using HDF5 in Atmospheric dispersion modeling. (6/05)

NPOESS

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is a satellite system used to monitor global environmental conditions, and collect and disseminate data related to: weather, atmosphere, oceans, land and near-space environment.

Open Navigation Surface Working Group

The Open Navigation Surface Working Group has collaborated on the Bathymetric Attributed Grid data format, which relies on HDF5 for the underlying file structure. We also provide an API for interacting with this data, driven by the needs of the community. In the tradition of open source, the code base is openly available.

ORNL

Using HDF5 in magnetohydrodynamics. (8/02)

OHMMS

Project: Condensed Matter Theory and materials science. (Alliance/NPACI user, 6/02)

Oregon State University and Hokaar.org

We are working towards a BS program in conputational physics. One aspect is an advanced lab including computations creating vast amounts of 4-D data. HDF5 is an ideal example of how to organize and store these data.

Please also see our advanced computational physics lab development site.

Peking University

Using HDF5 in Modis data processing. (EOS User, 7/03)

Photon Research Associates, Inc.

A mission planning software application has been developed using HDF files to store all mission planning parameters. HDF was chosen because performance, storage precision, and portability were primary requirements. Mission planning scripts are developed on users' laptop computers (Windows/NT/95). The mission scripts are then uploaded to the aircraft-based control computer (Sun/Solaris). The mission planning application was developed to support the USAF Advanced Remote Earth Sensing (ARES) project. See EarthScan Network Inc.

QuarkNet, Indiana University

Using HDF5 in Cosmic Ray Astrophysics and Solar correlation. (EOS User, 5/03)

The R Project for Statistical Computing

See R.

Raytheon Missile Systems

Research Systems, Inc.

Research Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of data analysis and visualization software. Its flagship product is IDL (the Interactive Data Language), an advanced fourth-generation language used to build visualization applications for science, medical, financial, and engineering data analysis. RSI also markets ENVI (written in IDL), the industry-leading remote sensing software.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK

Uses HDF5 in Earth Observation/Atmospheric Science. (1/22/02)

San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) (Alliance/NPACI User, 4/04)

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)

Using HDF5 in Fusion Science. (03/02)

Shawnee State University

Using HDF5 in field of astrophysics. (7/04)

SOR

Using HDF5 in Adaptive Optics. (8/06)

Southampton Oceanography Centre, Godiva Group, UK

Using HDF5 in field of oceanography. (2/05)

Southern California Earthquake Center

Using HDF5 in predictive earthquake simulations for seismic hazard analysis. (10/05)

S J College o f Engineering, Mysore, India

Using HDF5 in Electrical & Electronics Engineering. (11/04)

Sun Yat-sen University

Field: physics (Alliance/NPACI User, 6/02)

Supercomputing Center, Chinese Academy of Science

Using HDF5 in scientific visualization. (9/04)

The Swarm Development Group

The Swarm Development Group (SDG) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in multi-agent based simulation through the continued advancement of the Swarm Simulation System and support of the Swarm user community.

SSAI

SSAI is using HDF-EOS5 as the standard file format for SIPS on the Ozone Monitoring Instrument project. (EOS User, 8/02)

Swedish Meteorilogical and Hydrological Institute

See HL-HDF5.

TAC

Field: Numerical Relativity (6/02)

Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Uses MOHID, a three-dimensional water modelling system, developed at MARETEC (Marine and Environmental Technology Research Center) from the Technical Superior Institute (IST) which belongs to Technical University of Lisbon. The output from MOHID is stored in HDF files and can be analyzed with a post processor able to browse the HDF files.

Tech-X

Worked on a project that resulted in a Web Service allowing for remote HDF5 data access. [ More Information ] (2/07)

Triton Consultants Ltd., Canada

Using HDF5 in field of coastal engineering. (5/04)

Tsinghua University. Beijing, China

Using HDF5 in hydrolics. (10/02)

UESC, Brazil

Using HDF5 in bioinformatics. (6/04)

UNICAMP, Brazil

Using HDF4 and HDF5 in field of relativity. (12/02)

The University of Alabama (Huntsville) ESIPFED project

University of Alabama, Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC)

The ITSC uses HDF and HDF5 primarily in conjunction with HDF-EOS (v2 and v5). They have generated software for subsetting HDF-EOS (v2.x) datasets, and are working on a version for HDF-EOS-5. (EOS User, 5/04)

University of Antioquia, Institute of Physics, Medellin, Colombia

The Computational Physics and Astrophysics group is using HDF5 in the field of Galactic Astronomy. They are doing N-body simulations to study the dynamics of stellar systems. (6/05)

The University of California, Berkeley

The Chemistry Department at UC Berkeley has developed Zori, a quantum Monte Carlo program (soon-to-be-released as open source). It uses a combination of XML files and HDF5 for checkpoint/restart. (4/03)

The University of California, San Diego (6/04)

The University of California, Los Angeles, Basic Plasma Science Facility

The HDF5 format was adopted by the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA to store time-series data as well as diagnostic information about the twenty-meter experimental device.

As a national facility for basic plasma science research, multi-gigabyte datasets are routinely acquired by groups from around the country which dictates the use of a widely supported, portable, and scalable means to store and analyze data. HDF5 best fulfilled our requirements.

University of Cambridge

Project or Field: Cosmology (3/06)

University College / King's College London

Using HDF5 in field of medical imaging. (8/06)

University of Glasgow, British Heart Foundation, Scotland (10/06)

University of Groningen, Netherlands

Project or Field: Astrophysics (8/03)

University of Houston, Computer Science Dept.

GrADS project (2/03)

University of Johannesburg

Using HDF5 in geography, environmental science, and energy studies. (EOS User, 3/06)

University of Kentucky

Using HDF5 in Computational Fluid Structure Interactions. (5/04)

University of Michigan

Using HDF5 in field of Neuroscience. (10/03)

University of Michigan, NA&ME dept (Alliance/NPACI User, 6/02)

University of Missouri-Kansas City, Physics Department, ESG

Using HDF5 in field of Condensed Matter Physics. (2/07)

University Paris Sud, Orsay, France

Using HDF5 in field of optoelectronics and photonics. (11/04)

University of P�cs, Hungary

Using HDF4 and HDF5 in Fourier Analysis. (1/05)

Universitat Rovira i Virgili - DEEEA, Tarragona, Spain

Using HDF5 in Photonic crystals modelling. (5/03)

University of Sannio at Benevento, Italy

Using HDF4 and HDF5 in field of Electromagnetics, Gravitational Waves, and Remote Sensing:

We work extensively in applied electromagnetics (antennas, special and meta materials, scattering).
We work in gravitational wave detection experiments (e.g. LIGO), with special reference to data analysis.
We work on remote sensing (we have access to two direct-broadcast X-band and L-S band groundstations, in Salerno and Benevento).

University of South Florida, Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (EOS User, 4/04)

Universite de Technologie Troyes, France