HDF5 is a library for high-performance parallel data output. Deal.II can use it to write graphical solutions. They can be displayed using paraview for example.
This is how you can download, configure, and build hdf5:
You will end up with a script called
wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.9.tar.gz
tar xf hdf5-1.8.9.tar.gz
cd hdf5-1.8.9/
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/build/ -enable-parallel
make install
h5pcc
(or h5cc
if you
decided to not build the parallel version) in the build/bin directory.
To be able to use the interface of deal.II
for HDF5 we then
configure deal.II with the following
additional option:
--with-hdf5=path/to/hdf5/build/bin/h5pcc