pNetCDF and WRF

[Rajeev Thakur]

Hi John,
        That is good news. Did you have a chance to see what kind of
performance you get with PnetCDF versus regular netCDF?

Rajeev 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John 
> Michalakes
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:59 AM
> To: parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: pNetCDF and WRF
> 
> An update and a question:
> 
> Update: Parallel NetCDF is now successfully integrated as an 
> I/O option into
> the Weather Research and Forecast Model. Thanks for your help 
> answering
> questions these last couple of weeks. This new capability 
> will be included
> in the upcoming WRF 2.2 release in December 2006. pNetCDF 
> will be supported
> but not required in WRFv2.2 (it will be possible to build and run WRF
> without it). We will not distribute pNetCDF with WRF; rather, 
> users will be
> directed to install pNetCDF from the ANL distribution.
> 
> Question: what is the status of pNetCDF on Blue Gene, please? 
> Any caveats or
> other special information?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> John
> 
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