sc2003 paper posted

[Rob Ross]

Russ,

It's great to hear that this support will be available in netCDF!

Thanks,

Rob

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Russ Rew wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> > For those of you who may have missed SC2003, Jianwei Li presented our
> > paper about parallel netcdf.  This paper had previously been available
> > as a "technical preprint", but now the final and official revision is
> > on the parallel-netcdf web page.   We also have added his presentation
> > to our documentation.  
> > 
> > (actually, it's been on our web site for about a week.  I've just been
> > remiss in sending this message to the list :> )
> > 
> > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/parallel-netcdf/
> 
> Thanks, good paper!
> 
> By the way, I notice on your web site under "A note about Large File
> Support", you say:
> 
>   We expect the maintainers of the serial NetCDF library to add
>   support for the CDF-2 format in their next release. The support
>   should be based largely on this patch from Greg Sjaardema.
> 
> We have made available a so-far unannounced alpha-test version of
> netCDF 3.6 that incorporates Greg Sjaardema's patch for 64-bit
> offsets:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/exp/netcdf-3.6.0-alpha.tar.Z
> 
> We haven't announced it yet, because we want to first modify and test
> the Fortran and C++ interfaces to permit access to the new format.
> But readers of this list who use the C interface might want to try the
> new facility and let us know about problems.  We expect to announce
> and document the new capability soon.
> 
> --Russ
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
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> Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> russ at unidata.ucar.edu          http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ
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