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Russ, >Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:40:36 -0600 >From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> >To: address@hidden (Masato Shiotani) >Subject: Re: NetCDF manual in Japanese The above message contained the following: > > "This is a two layer cache. The first (synchronous) layer is composed > > of 256 8-block buffers in memory, the second (asynchronous) layer is > > composed of 4 1024-block buffers on the SSD. This scheme works well > > when accesses proceed through the dataset in random waves roughly > > 2x1024-blocks wide." > > > > What is "random waves"? Is this a special method to access buffers? > > Steve Emmerson wrote this. I'll try to get him to provide a simpler > description or explain what is meant by "random waves", since I don't > understand it either. The late Glenn Davis wrote this. I believe that it means that access to the data is relatively random on a large scale but relatively sequential on a small scale. For the above example, imagine accessing the data in random segments -- where a segment is 2 1024-byte blocks of data -- but within a segment, accessing the data sequentially. -- Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>