[petsc-dev] pnetcdf is a big problem

[Jed Brown]

Does ExodusII write pnetcdf?  It's a different interface from (parallel)
NetCDF4.

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

> Blaise really wants to write in parallel. It would be better to use HDF5,
> but evidently
> it is broken in ExodusII. Thats what we get for using something from
> Sandia. They
> finally have their revenge.
>
>    Matt
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>>   Do you really need to use pnetcdf? No one uses it and what usefulness
>> does it really provide, best to be avoided.
>>
>>    Barry
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 19, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > parallel-netcdf-1.9.0.pre1/INSTALL has:
>> >
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >
>> > 4. Reporting Installation or Usage Problems
>> > ===========================================
>> >
>> > Please send an email to parallel-netcdf at mcs.anl.gov
>> >
>> > <<<<<<
>> >
>> > We'll have to send in these bug reports.
>> >
>> > Satish
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> >
>> >> The configure is broken, perhaps beyond fixing. I need to give
>> --with-mpi
>> >> to get anything
>> >> to work because the way it checks for MPI is screwed up. I will see if I
>> >> can throw away all its idiotic configure stuff in favor of just telling
>> it
>> >> everything, but I am not eager to depend on something so rickety.
>> >>
>> >>   Matt
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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