Re: 19980825: netCDF on Hitachi SR2201

>To: address@hidden
>From: "Dr G.J. McMullan" <address@hidden>
>Subject: netCDF on Hitachi SR2201
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>Keywords: 199808250843.CAA05250

Hi Greg,

> You might be interested to know that I have installed the
> netcdf (3.4) library to our Hitachi SR2201 in the 
> high performance computing centre in Cambridge.
> 
> I had some problems with Hitachi's C preprocessor
> crashing on cfortran.h. However I got round this
> by doing the C preprocessing on another machine. Apart 
> from that the compile was reasonably straight forward.
> (the default buffer size is 8K which is not very good for
> I/O in our present configuration. I set NC_SIZEHINT_DEFAULT
> to 512K and things go a lot better)

Thanks for the information!  I'm storing this note in our support
database, so that others looking for information on porting to a Hitachi
can find it in the future by just clicking on our "Search netCDF
support email" link on the netCDF home page.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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