3.1 Pre-installation checklist

Before installing HPF, you need to make sure that the following programs are already installed:

• svn

• MySQL database

• PHP-enabled web server with gd library

• PHP with command line interface and MySQL module

Of course, you need all the necessary software including GNU autotools and a C/C++ compiler to build HDF5 library.

The first step of using HPF is to get the HPF source codes from subversion repository.

 %svn co http://svn.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/hdf5perf