- To: "Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)" <christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] better to distribute data in netCDF-4/classic or netcdf-3?
- From: Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:49:23 +0200
Unless you really see an improvement e.g. in file-size (i.e.
netcdf4-compression) I would still go for netcdf-3.
Ubuntu 10.04 does only include netcdf3-libraries, and it has a end-of-life for desktops in April 2013 and for servers in April 2015. It is really hard (e.g. it took me 2 days as experienced system administrator, and that was after our scientist had given up) to install nco with netcdf4. Such investments need a good reason.
I don't know about other OSes, but you should maybe check ScientificLinux/CentOS/Redhat, Debian and SuSE.
Heiko On 2012-08-09 23:05, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
Our refactored visualization system, Giovanni, will be distributing intermediate and end products as netCDF. My question to the community is: should we distribute in netCDF-3 or netCDF-4/classic? Are enough of the main netCDF tools updated to work with netCDF-4 / classic by now to make the switch? Or any other reason why we might want to hang back at netCDF-3? -- Dr. Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 phone: 301-614-5185
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