Set H5Pset_alignment & H5Pset_sieve_buf_size

Especially H5Pset_alignment is pretty important for MPI-parallel
performance.

src/IO/HDF5/ParallelHDF5IOHandler.cpp

@@ -96,6 +96,50 @@ ParallelHDF5IOHandlerImpl::ParallelHDF5IOHandlerImpl(
     status = H5Pset_cache(m_fileAccessProperty, metaCacheElements, rawCacheElements, rawCacheSize, policy);
     VERIFY(status >= 0, "[HDF5] Internal error: Failed to set H5Pset_cache");
 
+    /* File alignment - important for parallel I/O
+     *
+     * Sets the alignment properties of a file access property list so that any
+     * file object greater than or equal in size to threshold bytes will be
+     * aligned on an address which is a multiple of alignment. The addresses
+     * are relative to the end of the user block; the alignment is calculated
+     * by subtracting the user block size from the absolute file address and
+     * then adjusting the address to be a multiple of alignment.
+     *
+     * Default values for threshold and alignment are one, implying no
+     * alignment. Generally the default values will result in the best
+     * performance for single-process access to the file. For MPI IO and other
+     * parallel systems, choose an alignment which is a multiple of the disk
+     * block size.
+     *
+     * IN: Threshold value. Note that setting the threshold value to 0 (zero)
+     *     has the effect of a special case, forcing everything to be aligned.
+     * IN: Alignment value.
+     *
+     * Good numbers are roughly FS blocksize or transfer block sizes determined
+     * by the filesystem, network and routers at play.
+     */
+    hsize_t threshold = bytes / 2u;
+    hsize_t alignment = bytes;
+    H5Pset_alignment( m_fileAccessProperty, threshold, alignment );
+
+    /* maximum size in bytes of the data sieve buffer, which is used by file
+     * drivers that are capable of using data sieving. The data sieve buffer
+     * is used when performing I/O on datasets in the file. Using a buffer
+     * which is large enough to hold several pieces of the dataset being read
+     * in for hyperslab selections boosts performance by quite a bit.
+     *
+     * The default value is set to 64KB, indicating that file I/O for raw data
+     * reads and writes will occur in at least 64KB blocks. Setting the value
+     * to 0 with this API function will turn off the data sieving, even if the
+     * VFL driver attempts to use that strategy.
+     *
+     * Internally, the library checks the storage sizes of the datasets in the
+     * file. It picks the smaller one between the size from the file access
+     * property and the size of the dataset to allocate the sieve buffer for
+     * the dataset in order to save memory usage.
+     */
+    H5Pset_sieve_buf_size( m_fileAccessProperty, bytes ); /* >=FS Blocksize*/
+
     // sets the maximum size for the type conversion buffer and background
     // buffer and optionally supplies pointers to application-allocated
     // buffers. If the buffer size is smaller than the entire amount of data