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Re: [netcdfgroup] NetCDF4 MPI-IO and compression

In defense of the HDF team, this is difficult capability to enable in practice. This is because prior to compression you don't know how much space a given write will require, so parallelizing writes (especially if they aren't performed collectively) is not straightforward and requires a significant amount of coordination. 

Rob

On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Ed Hartnett wrote:


Thomas Green <thomas.green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


NetCDF users,

Just a quick question.  Can NetCDF4 use MPI-IO if also using
compression? I read on the HDFgroup website that MPI-IO and compression 
are not compatible but I am not sure if this still applies and how it
affects NetCDF4.

The HDFgroup FAQ related to MPI-IO and compression:
http://www.hdfgroup.com/hdf5-quest.html#p5comp

Many thanks,

Tom



No, sorry, that is not allowed by HDF5.

If you want parallel I/O you must use uncompressed data.

I have asked the HDF5 team whether this might be changed in a future
HDF5 release...

Ed

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