Parallel-NetCDF 1.0.0 released (at last!)

[Rob Ross]

Thanks Rene for your help in making this work on the SX; we'll make sure 
to get this README in the next release.

Rob

Rene Redler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    thanks for all the work. Attached please find an updated version
> of the README for the NEC SX which is based on tests with the 1.0.0
> release. Rob et al, don't worry it does not have to describe any major
> problems.
> 
> Best regards, Rene
> 
> 
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> 
> # Current notes for NEC SX; based on pnetcdf version 1.0.0; 28 July, 2005
> 
> . SX Cross compiler environment is not supported yet (the check for a working
>   ftruncate is not possible). Configure steps have to be invoked on the SX directly.
>   Configuring on the target host and then cross-compling works fine when setting
>   up necessary aliases on the configrue host (cc -> sxcc, etc) or vice versa 
>   on the compile host (sxcc -> cc).
> 
> . With the following environment variables a pnetcdflib.a has been
>   built successfully
> 
>     MPICC=mpic++
>     MPIF77=mpif90
>     FC=f90
>     CC=c++
>     FFLAGS=-dW
> 
> . Built on NEC SX6 with:
>    - Operating system SUPER-UX 14.1
>    - C++/SX compiler rev.061 2004/01/06
>    - f90/SX compiler rev.285 2003/09/25
> 
> . Note on nf_test
>    -dW disables promotion of Integer*2. However no interfaces
>     for Integer*1 are built. This causes 2 compile time errors
>     in util.F . Lines 1158 and 1226 have to be turned into valid
>     Fortran syntax.
> 
> . Note on test_dtype
>     The executables have to be compiled with -pvctl loopcnt=186048.
>     To avoid run time error in test_array the vectorisation of the
>     loop starting at line 256 needs to be disabled with
>     #pragma cdir novector
> 
> Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
> Rene Redler <redler at ccrl-nece.de>
> Joachim Worringen <joachim at ccrl-nece.de>