In this episode of "Call the Doctor," The HDF Group's John Readey explores the functionality of linked data sets in HSDS (Highly Scalable Data Service).  Using a Python notebook running on AWS, he walks through examples using data from the National Renewable Energy Lab, which has substantial HDF5 and HSDS data freely accessible. John covers various aspects, including domain information, data set details, and how to read and analyze chunks. He delves into the specifics of the chunk layout, discussing file URIs, offsets, and sizes. Comparisons between HSDS and direct S3 access using the HDF5 library reveal differences in performance due to the sequential nature of the HDF5 library's requests. John concludes by demonstrating a new feature for querying specific data sets using hsls.

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