> 4GiB variables

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:33:52AM -0700, Katie Antypas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We are seeing the 4GiB limitation on variable sizes on the Power 5 
> machine Bassi at NERSC.  The last fixed-size variable in a file can be 
> larger.  John Shalf's group is also seeing the same limitation, although 
> he though he recalled speaking with Rob Ross about how this limitation 
> was lifted in recent versions.  Is this the case?
> 
> We are using the latest version 1.0.2pre2 and setting the flag 
> NC_64BIT_OFFSET.

Could you double-check that pnetcdf is setting the CDF-2 style
correctly?  

$ od -An -c -N4 foo.nc

That command should say "C D F 2" 

==rob

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Rob Latham
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