archives of this list and current status

[Nancy Collins]

hi,

my primary interest in parallel netcdf would be to see if
we could use it for the ESMF project - the earth system
modeling framework.    the home page for the project
is www.esmf.ucar.edu.  

many of our target applications already use netcdf for their
i/o so if we could read/write a single file from within the
framework in parallel i'm sure everyone would be quite
interested.   i'm working on implementing a format-independent
i/o interface layer for the framework, so amongst many
other things i'm interested in minimizing the differences
between the various file formats that will be supported. 
one of the things in the parallel netcdf interface which
interested me was that it matched the serial netcdf interfaces
so closely.

i've got a secondary interest related to the WRF software
also here at ncar.  they have a format-independent i/o
interface which already has a netcdf file driver which
runs serially.  i'd be interested to see if parallel netcdf
can fit into this interface and if it would be useful to them.

n.

Alok N. Choudhary wrote:

> Nancy
>
>    Thank you for your interest in this work, and we believe we are 
> onto something. Jianwei Li and Rob Latham will be able to answer any 
> specific questions on the use of the software. We would be interested 
> in knowing the specific set of applications you plan to use this for. 
> Any information in that regard would be very valuable.
>
> regards
>
> Alok
>
> At 01:50 PM 7/18/2003 -0600, Nancy Collins wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> i'm working on a project where using a parallel
>> netcdf library would be nifty.  i've looked at the
>> api document and downloaded the 0.8.4 version
>> of the code.
>>
>> is there some file or web page that lists the
>> current status of the software?   (e.g. which
>> functions work?  what specific platforms should it
>> compile and run on? etc.)  i realize this is a
>> 0.x version so i'm quite willing to work around
>> problems or missing functions, but i'd like to
>> start by trying out things which are expected
>> to work!
>>
>> are there archives of this mailing list someplace
>> that i could browse to save repeating questions
>> which have already been discussed?
>>
>> thanks for any pointers and suggestions here,
>> nancy
>>
>> -- 
>> Nancy Collins
>> Scientific Computing Division
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research
>> P.O. Box 3000
>> Boulder, CO 80307-3000
>> (303) 497-2461
>>
>
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> Alok N. Choudhary
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> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> and Marketing and Technology, Kellogg School of Management
> Technological Institute
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>
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Nancy Collins
Scientific Computing Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
(303) 497-2461