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Ed: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Ed Hartnett wrote: > Howdy all! > > I have a question about parallel programming with HDF5. Do parallel > programmers just not use unlimited dimensions? > You can use unlimited dimensions for parallel programming. > I noticed that H5Dextend is a collective operation. This would make it > difficult for programs to add a record at a time. > I don't think it is difficult as long as all processors participate. I may miss something. Parallel NetCDF tests I wrote include unlimited dimension dataset tests for both collective and independent modes. Tests passed. Although H5Dextend is collective, I remember that I noticed that doesn't matter for netCDF4 users. I may be wrong. Maybe other people can give some insights. Kent > Alternatively I could imagine a scheme where extending the dataset > would be buffered - some large number of records could be added > whenever the current batch is used up. > > Any thoughts or comments about the use or misuse of unlimited > dimensions with HDF5 parallel would be most welcome. > > Thanks! > > Ed > >
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