New Project: NetCDF on top of HDF-5!

[William Gropp]

At 01:01 PM 3/27/2003 -0600, Rajeev Thakur wrote:

We should try to join this effort to ensure that NetCDF-4 contains the 
appropriate collective API.  We can aim some of it at the HDF5 collective 
I/O that Rajeev was able to get into the early HDF5 design.

Bill



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>Subject: ** HDF News Bulletin ** 3/27/03
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>Unidata and NCSA collaborate to merge NetCDF and HDF5
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>
>Last week it was announced that a joint Unidata/NCSA project has been
>awarded funding under NASA's Advanced Information Systems Technology
>(AIST) Program.  This project is led by PI Russ Rew of Unidata, in
>close collaboration with the NCSA HDF team.
>
>Unidata and NCSA will collaborate to create netCDF-4, using HDF5 as its
>storage layer.  Users of netCDF in numerical models will benefit from
>advanced features available in HDF5, including support for packed data,
>large datasets, and parallel I/O. Users of HDF5 will benefit from the
>availability of a simpler high-level interface suitable for
>array-oriented scientific data, wider use of the HDF5 data format, and
>the wealth of netCDF software for data management, analysis and
>visualization that has evolved among the large netCDF user community.
>See also:
>
>    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/whatsnew.html
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