pnetCDF

pnetCDF is a high performance parallel library to access files compatible with the netCDF formats.

Documentation

• pnetCDF home: https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf

Citations

When referring to the Parallel netCDF project, please use the following URLs:

• www.mcs.anl.gov/parallel-netcdf (the ‘trac’ or ‘www-unix’ URLs could change)
• ​http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF/ (a page maintained by Northwestern University)

If you are looking for a reference to use in a published paper, please cite the SC2003 paper:

• Jianwei Li, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, Robert Ross, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, Rob Latham, Andrew Siegel, Brad Gallagher, and Michael Zingale. ​Parallel netCDF: A Scientific high performance I/O Interface. In the Proceedings of ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, pp. 39, November, 2003.

Usage on Bridges-2

To see what versions of pnetrCDF are available and if there is more than one, which is the default, along with some help, type

module spider parallel-netcdf

To use pnetCDF, include a command like this in your batch script or interactive session to load the pnetCDF module: (note ‘module load’ is case-sensitive):

module load parallel-netcdf