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Re: [netcdfgroup] better to distribute data in netCDF-4/classic or netcdf-3?

  • 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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