Russ Rew: Re: netCDF for Power Challenge

Whoops, I forgot to CC: support-netcdf ...

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Date:    Fri, 28 Apr 1995 10:17:23 -0600
From:    Russ Rew <address@hidden>
To:      address@hidden (Mike Folk)
cc:      address@hidden, steve
Subject: Re: netCDF for Power Challenge 

Hi Mike,

> Due to a large number of user requests, we are in the process of porting
> HDF to the SGI Power Challenge.  We have finished the HDF interface part
> and are working on the netCDF interface.  Albert Cheng in our group thinks
> he know what to do with the Unidata netCDF code to make it work, but of
> course would rather not change the Unidata code any more than necessary,
> especially if you guys are working on it.
> 
> Has your group already done the porting of netCDF to the Power Chanllenge?
> If so, we would like to use your version.  If not yet, we would like to
> work with you on the porting.  We understand that this work might not fit
> in with your resources, priorities, etc., but want to offer to collaborate
> in any way we can.

We've done the port and have an alpha-release of it available, while we work
on getting netCDF 2.4 ready for release.  Here's the note on it, from 

   <URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/known_problems.html#irix64>

   IRIX64

   The current release of the netCDF package will not work under IRIX64,
   which is a 64-bit operating system. We have developed a test version of
   the netCDF package that appears to work correctly -- so far. This
   version is not guaranteed to work under any other operating system (and
   might still have problems under IRIX64). If you absolutely must have a
   working netCDF package under IRIX64 and can't wait for the next release
   (which will be version 2.4) then you can try using the IRIX64 test
   version. It's available via the same mechanism as the current netCDF
   distribution -- but its name is irix64-alpha.tar.Z.

   Be advised that we won't support this version under any other operating
   system: if you have a problem with it on a non-IRIX64 platform, we don't
   want to hear about it. We're making this version available solely to
   help those users with an immediate need.

   Notwithstanding the above caveat, we are interested in feedback from
   IRIX64 sites that are attempting to use this test package.

You can get it from

   <URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/irix64-alpha.tar.Z>

- --Russ

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