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Hi Steve, > Tim Williams, a physicist at LLNL/NERSC, mentioned to you a couple weeks > ago that we have a parallel version of NetCDF running on the T3D at NERSC. > I'd like to fill you in on the changes that I made to get "libnetcdf.a" > working on the T3D. I think I told Tim that we'd have a new release incorporating our Cray optimizations available by now, but it turns out I was being too optimistic. It now looks like it will be another two weeks. I'm glad you've provided him with something that sounds like it works even better on the T3D than the Cray optimizations in netCDF 2.4. I've taken the liberty of passing on your notes about the FFIO layer, XDR, and your parallel I/O library to the developer of the FFIO layer here, Jeff Kuehne (address@hidden). > I'll append my changes and XDR and "par_io" code in uuencoded, > compressed, tar format. Thanks, it unpacked with no problems. We won't be able to integrate this into netCDF 2.4, but I'd like to make your changes available to anyone who asks about netCDF on the T3D, and to refer them to you if they have questions. I hope you'll get a chance to test if your changes work OK with the netCDF 2.4 release, when we finally announce it. NCAR recently got access to a T3D, so we could theoretically test and maintain this locally ourselves, but we'll need to learn a bit more about it first. Thanks again for making your changes available. ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu