HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data. The HDF5 Technology suite includes tools and applications for managing, manipulating, viewing, and analyzing data in the HDF5 format.

• Version: 1.8.14
• Added: December, 2014
• Link: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

• Show all available versions of hdf5

  module avail hdf5

• Load hdf5 module:

  module load hdf5/1.8.14

• Download src tarball, its already compiled so just copy /export/apps

  wget "http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/bin/linux-centos6-x86_64-gcc447/hdf5-1.8.14-linux-centos6-x86_64-gcc447-shared.tar.gz" - O hdf5-1.8.14-linux-centos6-x86_64-gcc447-shared.tar.gz
  cd hdf5-1.8.14-linux-centos6-x86_64-gcc447-shared
  sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/hdf5/1.8.14/
  sudo chown -R joguya:joguya /export/apps/hdf5/1.8.14/
  cp -r * /export/apps/hdf5/1.8.14/
  sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/hdf5/1.8.14/

• hdf5 module file

  #%Module1.0
  #####################################################################
  ##
  ## HDF5 Modulefile
  ## by James Oguya, <j.oguya@cgiar.org>
  ## January, 2015
  ##
  
  set appname         hdf5
  set version         1.8.14
  set prefix          /export/apps/${appname}/${version}
  set exec_prefix     ${prefix}/bin
  set datarootdir     ${prefix}/share
  set url             "http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/"
  set msg             "HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data.\nOfficial Site: $url\n"
  
  module-whatis $msg
  
  proc ModulesHelp { } {
      puts stderr "$msg"
  }
  
  conflict            hdf5
  
  prepend-path        PATH            ${exec_prefix}
  prepend-path        MANPATH         ${datarootdir}
  prepend-path        LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${prefix}/lib
  
  # load dependencies
  if { ![is-loaded openmpi/1.8.2] } {
      module load openmpi/1.8.2
  }

• deploy the new module using ansible

  ansible-playbook site.yml -u provisioning -K -s --limit=compute --tags=module