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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class H5bench(CMakePackage):
+    """A benchmark suite for measuring HDF5 performance."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/hpc-io/h5bench"
+    git      = "https://github.com/hpc-io/h5bench.git"
+
+    version('master', branch='master')
+
+    depends_on('cmake@3.10:', type='build')
+    depends_on('mpi')
+    depends_on('hdf5+mpi@1.12.0:1.99.99,develop-1.12:')
+
+    @run_after('install')
+    def install_config(self):
+        install_tree('h5bench_patterns/sample_config',
+                     self.prefix.share.patterns)
+        install('metadata_stress/hdf5_iotest.ini',
+                self.prefix.share)
+
+    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
+        env.set('HDF5_HOME', self.spec['hdf5'].prefix)