Ed Hartnett wrote:
Howdy all!
Here at NetCDF World Headquarters, we are preparing the 4.1 release of
the netCDF C/Fortran libraries. There are many exciting new features in
this release, including:
* Remote data access with the new built-in opendap client.
* Reading of existing HDF4/HDF5 data archives with the netCDF C/Fortran
APIs.
* A completely rewritten ncgen, which now fully supports netCDF-4.
* Use of parallel-netcdf library to do parallel I/O on netCDF classic
and 64-bit offset format files.
* The nc-config script to help build netCDF programs.
* UDUNITS now distributed with netCDF.
* The ability to compress netCDF-4/HDF5 data with szip
compression. (JUST ADDED!)
Ed: I'd like to try out the szip compression, but I only see
instructions on how to build with szip enabled. Are there any docs yet
showing to use szip instead of zlib for compression?
-Jeff
Now would be a great time for our dedicated user community to download
the daily snapshot, let us know that it builds cleanly, and try out
some of the new features.
Get the latest snapshot here:
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/snapshot/netcdf-4-daily.tar.gz
Build it according to instructions here:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_snapshot/netcdf-install.html#Quick-Instructions
Report results (good or bad) to the support email address:
support-netcdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks!
Ed
