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2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Introduction to NetCDF-4

11.9 NetCDF-4 Performance Improvements
NetCDF-4 uses HDF5 for its storage layer, which provides several ways to improve performance, even for netCDF-3 programs.

Early users of netCDF-4 have reported 4:1 compression and 7x speedups for model data storage and access.

 


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