2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > The Future of netCDF
36.2 Long-term plans for Unidata data access infrastructure
Plans that might be in our next five-year NSF proposal
- Finish documentation conversion to Doxygen
- "Lazy open" for data from many large files
- Improve compression to GRIB2 levels
- Client support for DAP4 protocol
- Automatic packing/unpacking in library
- Support array slice query notation
- Test data collection for tool developers
- Implement high-level chunking policies
- Provide guidance on chunking & compression
- Refactor utilities into more & smaller programs
- Move to github
- Support asynchronous I/O for remote access
2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > The Future of netCDF