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[svn-r276] Added the "Release information for parallel HDF5" section.

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This release has been tested on UNIX platforms only; specifically:
Linux, FreedBSD, IRIX, Solaris & Dec UNIX.
Release information for parallel HDF5
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+) Current release supports independent access to fixed dimension datasets
only.
+) The comm and info arguments of H5Cset_mpi are not used. All parallel
I/O are done via MPI_COMM_WORLD. Access_mode for H5Cset_mpi can be
H5ACC_INDEPENDENT only.
+) This release of parallel HDF5 has been tested on SP2 and Origin 2000
systems. It uses the ROMIO version of MPIO interface for parallel
I/O supports.
+) Useful URL's.
Parallel HDF webpage: "http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Parallel_HDF/"
ROMIO webpage: "http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/thakur/romio/"
+) Future plan for parallel HDF5
1) support for Intel Teraflop platform.
2) support for unlimited dimension datasets.
3) support for collective access to datasets.
4) support for independent create/open of datasets.