netcdf4 performance vs netcdf3

[Robert Latham]

The benchmarks in this paper are all serial, but we should consider it
as a starting point when comparing Parallel-NetCDF to NetCDF-3 and
NetCDF-4:

Email from Kent: 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2008-June/002765.html

And the writeup: 
http://www.hdfgroup.org/pubs/papers/2008-06_netcdf4_perf_report.pdf

==rob

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Rob Latham
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