On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It means that if you have a variable with an unlimited dimension, such
> as
>
> float var(time, lon, lat)
>
> where time is unlimited, then the default chunks will be of shape
>
> 1 x clon x clat
>
> values (not bytes), for integers clon, clat computed to be smaller
> than but proportioanl to the sizes of the lon and lat dimensions
Let me see if I understand. Here's the setup of my file:
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dimensions:
step = UNLIMITED ;
cell = 100 ;
variables:
float temperature(step, cell) ;
float flux(step, cell) ;
float energy(step, cell) ;
byte steadyState(step) ;
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So -- by default -- temperature, flux, and energy will have a chunk size of
-- "smaller than but proportioanl to", meaning smaller than? -- 100 floats
(so 400 bytes)? Likewise, by default, steadyState will have a chunk size of
1 byte? (Since it can't be smaller.)
If that's true, that does sound terribly inefficient.
And I override these defaults by providing a chunksizes array when calling
NF90_DEF_VAR?
-Leon
