[netCDFJava #QQO-385265]: Unable to read grib data using OPENDAP

Hi Ann,

It's hard for me to answer your question as it greatly depends on the actual 
processing you're doing. However, as a general rule, if you can fit all of the 
data into memory, it makes processing it much simpler. But if the data is too 
large, you don't have that option and you'll need to write it to disk. It's 
also hard to define what "too large" is, as it depends on your hardware and how 
you've configured the JVM, but I tend to get uneasy at the 1 GB mark.

Do you need to have all of the data available to do any processing, or is only 
a small chunk needed to compute part of the result? For example, maybe you only 
need one time slice loaded into memory at a time? That would make things easier.

I don't expect caching to help here, unless you plan to have a lot of local 
NetCDF files open. And NCO might be useful, but only if part or all of your 
processing could be done by their operators. I expect that NCO has been coded 
to properly handle very large datasets as well.

Cheers,
Christian

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QQO-385265
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed