Re: [Pytables-announce] [Pytables-users] ANN: PyTables 2.2b3 released

[Francesc A. <fa...@py...>]

Oops, I ran too fast and the tarfile was incomplete :-/  I've uploaded a new, 
corrected tarball.  Hope this time it works smoothly.  Sorry for the 
inconveniences.

Francesc

A Wednesday 24 February 2010 20:19:20 Francesc Alted escrigué:
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm glad to announce you the third beta version of PyTables 2.2 series.  As
> you should know by now, I've added support for the high-performance Blosc
> compressor, so, if you are using compression (and if you are concerned
>  about getting the most out of your data, you should) you will see PyTables
>  to be faster than ever before.
> 
> Although I've already tested Blosc quite a lot, it is still in beta, but
>  I'm confident that if enough people help me in testing the beast, we can
>  make it stable enough to be marked apt for production in a few months.
> 
> And now, the official announcement:
> 
> 
> ===========================
>  Announcing PyTables 2.2b3
> ===========================
> 
> PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to
> efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with support for
> full 64-bit file addressing.  PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library
> and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use.
> 
> This is the third, and most probably last, beta version of 2.2 release.
> The main addition in this beta version is the addition of Blosc
> (http://blosc.pytables.org), a high-speed compressor that is meant to
> work at similar speeds, or higher, than the memory-cache bandwidth in
> modern processors.  This will allow for very high performance in
> internal, in-memory PyTables computations while still using compression.
> Remember that Blosc is still in *beta* and it is not meant for
> production purposes yet.  You have been warned!
> 
> In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this
> version, have a look at:
> http://www.pytables.org/moin/ReleaseNotes/Release_2.2b3
> 
> You can download a source package with generated PDF and HTML docs, as
> well as binaries for Windows, from:
> http://www.pytables.org/download/preliminary
> 
> For an on-line version of the manual, visit:
> http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual-2.2b3
> 
> 
> Resources
> =========
> 
> About PyTables:
> 
> http://www.pytables.org
> 
> About the HDF5 library:
> 
> http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
> 
> About NumPy:
> 
> http://numpy.scipy.org/
> 
> 
> Acknowledgments
> ===============
> 
> Thanks to many users who provided feature improvements, patches, bug
> reports, support and suggestions.  See the ``THANKS`` file in the
> distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors.  Most
> specially, a lot of kudos go to the HDF5 and NumPy (and numarray!)
> makers.  Without them, PyTables simply would not exist.
> 
> 
> Share your experience
> =====================
> 
> Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may
> have.
> 
> 
> ----
> 
>   **Enjoy data!**
> 

-- 
Francesc Alted