Papers, presentations, and more

  • Our Parallel NetCDF API (postscript, 158k) document describes the API we are using. We have tweaked the programming interface to be more friendly to parallel i/o while maintaining file format compatibility with the serial version of NetCDF.
  • Our (SC2003 Paper about Parallel-NetCDF (PDF, 97k) discusses our library and presents some performance results.
  • Jianwei Li's presentation (PDF, 167k) from the SC2003 conference.
  • Unidata's serial NetCDF documentation sometimes comes in handy for comparison.

Tuning

Release Notes

Others

  • NetCDF-4 can use pnetcdf. We think this is great. More information: PnetcdfAndNetcdf4
  • Forrest Hoffman wrote an article about Parallel-netCDF in the July 2004 issue of Linux Magazine.
  • The HDF group at NCSA ported a serial NetCDF code to one using Parallel-NetCDF. They posted a writeup of their efforts . It's a little old but does provide some additional information to supplement doc/porting_notes.txt