# hdf5-mpi を Homebrew, Nix でインストール

hdf5-mpi のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:hdf5-mpi
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hdf5-mpi
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hdf5-mpi
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: hdf5-mpi from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:hdf5-mpi
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 2.2.0
- **ソース概要:** File format designed to store large amounts of data
- **ホームページ:** <https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5/>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5>
- **最終更新:** 2026-07-29T10:29:20Z
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- h5pcc (エイリアス)
- h5perf (エイリアス)
- h5pfc (エイリアス)
- ph5diff (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 2.2.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

hdf5-mpi is the MPI-enabled packaging role for the HDF5 library and tools. It shares HDF5's project history, but it matters to users who need Parallel HDF5 builds linked with MPI and MPI-IO support rather than only serial HDF5 libraries.

### プロジェクトの歴史

HDF began at NCSA in 1987 as an architecture-independent scientific data library and file format. By 1996, HDF's maintainers considered the older line insufficient for larger data volumes and newer computing systems, and in 1998 HDF5 was implemented as the more scalable successor to HDF4.

Parallel HDF5 was designed around compatibility with serial HDF5 files, a single shared file image across processes, and a portable standard parallel I/O interface. The HDF Group documentation says the initial target was MPI programming rather than shared-memory programming, matching the MPI-enabled package role.

### 採用の歴史

The MPI-enabled package exists because HPC users often need the same HDF5 data model but with collective access from multiple processes. Upstream installation guidance for Parallel HDF5 calls out MPI compilers with MPI-IO support and POSIX-compliant parallel file systems, which maps directly to cluster module and package-manager variants.

For Homebrew and Nix users, hdf5-mpi separates the parallel build from the default serial package so dependent software can link against the expected ABI and compiler wrappers. The package role is about build configuration and dependency selection, not a separate upstream project.

### 使われ方

Parallel HDF5 is used by MPI applications that need many processes to create, open, read, write, and close HDF5 files while preserving serial-file compatibility. Upstream CMake guidance enables this path with HDF5_ENABLE_PARALLEL=ON and MPI compilers such as mpicc or mpif90.

The package exposes MPI-aware compiler wrappers and tools recorded in the batch input, including h5pcc, h5pfc, h5perf, and ph5diff. Those names signal to build systems and users that this package is for parallel HDF5 development and testing.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

hdf5-mpi is a classic package-manager split: same upstream, different feature matrix. It matters because mixing serial HDF5, MPI HDF5, C, Fortran, C++, thread-safety, filters, and compiler wrappers can break downstream builds in subtle ways.

Package users care about this variant when building scientific Python, Julia, Fortran, C, and C++ software against cluster MPI stacks. The package is less about command-line novelty and more about getting the right library compiled with the right parallel I/O assumptions.

### タイムライン

- 1987: NCSA began work on the original architecture-independent HDF technology.
- 1998: HDF5 was implemented as a more scalable successor to HDF4.
- 1998: Parallel HDF5 design work targeted MPI programming and portable parallel I/O.
- 2006: The HDF Group began operating as a separate nonprofit steward.
- 2020: The official HDF5 source repository was created on GitHub.
- 2026: Batch input records Homebrew and Nix packaging for the MPI-enabled package variant.

### Related projects

- HDF5 is the upstream library and file format project.
- MPI and MPI-IO provide the parallel programming and I/O substrate for Parallel HDF5.
- h5py and HDF5.jl are examples of higher-level ecosystems that distinguish serial and MPI-enabled HDF5 builds.
- netCDF is a neighboring scientific-data ecosystem commonly tested with HDF5 by upstream integration workflows.

### ソース

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hdf5-mpi>
- <https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5>
- <https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/blob/develop/docs/README_HPC.md>
- <https://support.hdfgroup.org/documentation/hdf5/latest/_intro_par_h_d_f5.html>
- <https://www.hdfgroup.org/2015/03/04/hdf-group/>
- <https://www.hdfgroup.org/about-us/>
- <https://www.hdfgroup.org/solutions/hdf5/>


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - hdf5-mpi: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: hdf5-mpi from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hdf5-mpi.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hdf5-mpi.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
