Unless you really see an improvement e.g. in file-size (i.e.
netcdf4-compression) I would still go for netcdf-3.
Ubuntu 10.04 does only include netcdf3-libraries, and it has a
end-of-life for desktops in April 2013 and for servers in April 2015.
It is really hard (e.g. it took me 2 days as experienced system
administrator, and that was after our scientist had given up) to install
nco with netcdf4. Such investments need a good reason.
I don't know about other OSes, but you should maybe check
ScientificLinux/CentOS/Redhat, Debian and SuSE.
Heiko
On 2012-08-09 23:05, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
Our refactored visualization system, Giovanni, will be distributing
intermediate and end products as netCDF.
My question to the community is: should we distribute in netCDF-3 or
netCDF-4/classic?
Are enough of the main netCDF tools updated to work with netCDF-4 / classic by
now to make the switch?
Or any other reason why we might want to hang back at netCDF-3?
--
Dr. Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 phone: 301-614-5185
