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>From the file header dump you sent earlier, no PnetCDF hint is necessary.
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<div><div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">I am now using:</span></div><div>MPICH_MPIIO_HINTS=*:romio_cb_read=enable:romio_cb_write=enable:striping_factor=48:striping_unit=134217728</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)" class="gmail_default">we explored the parameter space and this seems to be about the best for this particular file. But I think that there is still something</div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)" class="gmail_default">wrong at a low level and am working on trying to figure that out. <br></div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br>
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<div>One question. Did you delete the output file before each run?<br>
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We are having a lot of problems with darshan on our system - I'm working with the darshan developers to resolve.</div>
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I am setting MPIIO hints - but I see that there are some hints specific to pnetcdf - do you have any recommendations?<br>
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<div>FYI. Darshan now can capture the I/O activities of PnetCDF,</div>
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<div>In that case, I have the E3SM-IO benchmark that has a fairly complicate I/O
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<div>On Aug 9, 2023, at 6:17 PM, Jim Edwards <<a href="mailto:jedwards@ucar.edu" target="_blank">jedwards@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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