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Re: [netcdfgroup] parallel netcdf4 fails on nc_enddef when deflate-filter is used

  • To: Jim Edwards <jedwards@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] parallel netcdf4 fails on nc_enddef when deflate-filter is used
  • From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 11:14:20 -0700
Another recent possibility that supports parallel compression is Peter
Lindstrom's zfp
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6876024>.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Jim Edwards <jedwards@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> pigz is only shared memory parallel and decompression is still serial so
> it's not really a solution.
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/07/2015 02:52 AM, Heiko Klein wrote:
>> > Hi Russ,
>> >
>> > thanks for your answer and the explanation from the hdfgroup.
>> >
>> > For our purposes, it is not the parallel IO, which is important, but the
>> > bottleneck is in many cases zlib. Are there other ways to parallelize
>> the
>> > 'zlib' portion of netcdf/hdf?
>> >
>> > Heiko
>>
>> Perhaps looking at the pigz code would be useful for this.
>>
>>
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