archives of this list and current status

[Alok N. Choudhary]

Thank you fro this information. Our software has the capability and the 
desired interface (especially being very close to the original serial 
interface).

Alok

At 02:45 PM 7/18/2003 -0600, Nancy Collins wrote:
>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
>>Professor, Northwestern University
>>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>and Marketing and Technology, Kellogg School of Management
>>Technological Institute
>>2145 Sheridan Road
>>Evanston, Illinois  60208-3118
>>
>>phone:  (847) 467-4129. fax  :  (847) 467-4144
>>email: choudhar at ece.northwestern.edu
>>URL  : http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~choudhar
>>
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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
>
>

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Alok N. Choudhary
Professor, Northwestern University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Marketing and Technology, Kellogg School of Management
Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois  60208-3118

phone:  (847) 467-4129. fax  :  (847) 467-4144
email: choudhar at ece.northwestern.edu
URL  : http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~choudhar

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