[petsc-dev] pnetcdf is a big problem

[Smith, Barry F.]

> On Dec 19, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Does ExodusII write pnetcdf?  It's a different interface from (parallel)
> NetCDF4.

   Shudder!

> 
> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>> 
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