2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Parallel I/O with NetCDF
13.6 Collective and Independent Operations with Parallel I/O in NetCDF-4
Some netCDF operations are collective (must be done by all processes
at the same time), and others are independent (can be done by any
process at any time.)
2008 Unidata NetCDF Workshop for Developers and Data Providers > Parallel I/O with NetCDF