Parallel netCDF: A Scientific High-Performance I/O Interface

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dc.creatorLi, Jianwei
dc.creatorLiao, Wei-keng
dc.creatorChoudhary, Alok
dc.creatorRoss, Robert
dc.creatorThakur, Rajeev
dc.creatorGropp, William
dc.creatorLatham, Rob
dc.date2003-06-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:19:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:19:48Z
dc.descriptionDataset storage, exchange, and access play a critical role in scientific applications. For such purposes netCDF serves as a portable and efficient file format and programming interface, which is popular in numerous scientific application domains. However, the original interface does not provide an efficient mechanism for parallel data storage and access. In this work, we present a new parallel interface for writing and reading netCDF datasets. This interface is derived with minimum changes from the serial netCDF interface but defines semantics for parallel access and is tailored for high performance. The underlying parallel I/O is achieved through MPI-IO, allowing for dramatic performance gains through the use of collective I/O optimizations. We compare the implementation strategies with HDF5 and analyze both. Our tests indicate programming convenience and significant I/O performance improvement with this parallel netCDF interface.
dc.description10 pages,7 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0306048
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0306048
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31612
dc.subjectDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
dc.subjectD.1.3
dc.titleParallel netCDF: A Scientific High-Performance I/O Interface
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