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Re: 20050303: New netcdf software available

>To: address@hidden
>From: Joe Sirott <address@hidden>
>Subject: New netcdf software available
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200503032312.j23NCTv2007853

Hi Joe,

> Could you add the following to your "Software for manipulating netCDF 
> data page"? Thanks.

Done, thanks for contributing this!  I was impressed by your talk on
cdfsync at the AMS meeting in January.

--Russ


> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Joe Sirott of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has 
> developed cdfsync, a program that allows users to rapidly synchronize a 
> set of netCDF files over a network. Fast synchronization times are 
> achieved by only transmitting the differences between files. It is built 
> on the Open Source rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> program, but 
> contains a number of optimizations including:
> 
>     * Special handling of netCDF files for faster synchronization
>       calculations
>     * Much faster updates of large numbers of small netCDF files
>     * In-place updates of large netCDF files
> 
> The latest version should run on Linux variants and Solaris.
> 
> More information is available at the cdfsync website 
> <http://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/software/cdfsync/>.