Bulletin 6/24/08

NetCDF-4 Performance Report
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NetCDF-4 is an I/O software package that retains the original netCDF
APIs while using HDF5 to store the data.  Sponsored by NASA ESTO,
netCDF-4 is the result of a collaboration between Unidata and The HDF
Group.

The HDF Group has prepared a report on the performance of netCDF-4
that uses benchmarks and examples to:
-  compare the performance of netCDF-3 and netCDF-4
-  discuss performance tuning with netCDF-4
-  discuss performance pitfalls with netCDF-4

Some of the performance tuning and pitfalls discussions may also be of
interest to users of HDF5 who do not use netCDF-4.
The report is available at:

   http://www.hdfgroup.org/pubs/papers/2008-06_netcdf4_perf_report.pdf