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> Hi Glenn, > > I have had a request to supply NETCDF for a customer of ours here in the UK. > Can you tell me what the status of the product is, for the T3E and Origin2000? > > I would like to know if it is available, and if there is a license cost? > > Thanks, > > - Crispin. > > ps. I got your name from Steve Luzmoor > > -- > Crispin Keable > E-mail:- address@hidden > Applications Analyst direct line:- (44) 118 925 7016 > Cray Research switchboard:- (44) 118 925 7500 > a Silicon Graphics company fax:- (44) 118 925 7104 A good starting point for finding out about netcdf is the netcdf home page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ Netcdf compiles and works on T3E and all SGI's, as well as any number of other machines. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#platforms Currently, it is not "thread safe" or "multiprocessor safe" in the sense that if you are using it in a parallel environment, you need to make sure that all the netcdf calls happen in the same thread. (If you are interested in this, I can bring you up to speed on the issues.) Netcdf is freely distributable, copyrighted code. Details at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/copyright.html We would encourage vendors to supply it with systems. For high performance applications, you may be interested in the contributed mmap based i/o layer, mmapio.c. This is especially effective & useful on IRIX because IRIX mmap() has the MAP_AUTOGROW flag. ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/mmapio.c. -glenn