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> It's been quite a while since we "talked" about the work NERSC is > doing re: parallel netCDF I/O on their T3E. I know you were in touch > with them at one point, but I wasn't sure how involved you ended > up getting. I heard recently that they have made some considerable > progress with the "global" I/O layer, and that the mods to the netCDF > code were not too bad. Have you had time to stay involved? I've helped out a little. We added some macros to make it easier to isolate access to shared state. > Will the mods they are making get incorporated into a future release > of netCDF the way Steve Luzmoor's were in 2.4.3? Certainly. -glenn