chunking in pnetcdf

[Rob Latham]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:40:32AM -0400, Kristopher Bedka wrote:
> In Netcdf 4.1, I've used functions nf_def_var_chunking and
> nf_def_var_deflate to internally compress the files I'm creating.
> I'm not finding these functions within pnetcdf.  Does anyone have a
> suggestion on how to mimic this Netcdf 4.1 capability in pnetcdf?

As Jim says, there's no netcdf chunking.  

Several research groups have been looking at compression in pnetcdf,
with promising results, but we're a bit away from making those
research efforts production-ready.

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA