Harsh, I asked about your parallel netCDF library beta version, but I just looked at the preliminary performance report: http://www.nersc.gov/research/SCG/acpi/IO/netcdf_par.html and now realize it is probably premature to ask about this now. I also see from the report that you know about the MPInetcdf parallel library work done at Northewestern/ANL. I would still be interested in any more details or progress reports about this project if there are further developments ... --Russ