pnetcdf vs. netcdf4 outstanding questions

[Jim Edwards]

Hi John,

Perhaps you might consider PIO which implements both netcdf4 and pnetcdf
along with a serial option and allows the
user a runtime selection.

Jim

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, John Urbanic <urbanic at psc.edu> wrote:

> Gentlemen:****
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> As our community code must presently select one of these options, I was
> hoping to find a coherent compare/contract discussion somewhere "on the
> web".  From the wiki, it looks like this must have existed at one point.  In
> particular, I refer to the "pnetcdf_vs_netcdf4" bullet on the top page.  It
> is greyed out at the moment, but implies that something interesting once
> lived there.  In lieu of this, perhaps one of you knows of another such
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> If nothing of the sort exists, then I must start with some simple tests of
> my own.  A tutorial with some bootstrap examples would be helpful.  The best
> I can find are the sample codes in the /test directory.  An older - circa
> 2008 - mailing list archives discussion indicates that there was an imminent
> plan to gather up user submitted examples.   I can't seem to locate those.
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> Thanks,****
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> John****
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