2007 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Introduction to NetCDF-4
11.16 Parallel I/O
Parallel I/O exploits parallel file systems on high-performance
computing platforms.
- NetCDF-4 uses HDF5's support for parallel I/O built on top of MPI-IO.
- Vendors typically provide an optimized MPI-IO layer on top of their
parallel file system implementation.
- Special
create and open calls are used to open a file for parallel data
access.
- An example
of use of netCDF-4 and MPI for creating a file for parallel
access is available in the netCDF-4 alpha User's Guide.
2007 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Introduction to NetCDF-4