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update netcdf-4 feature description
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wkliao committed Nov 5, 2018
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* New features
+ NetCDF-4 driver -- Accessing HDF5-based NetCDF-4 files is now supported.
PnetCDF can be built on top of NetCDF-4 library to allow PnetCDF to read
and write a NetCDF-4 file. Users now can add NC_NETCDF4 flag to create
NetCDF-4 files. For opening NetCDF-4 files, no additional flag is needed,
as PnetCDF can automatically detect the file format.
+ Per-file thread-safe capability is added. This feature can be enabled by
adding command-line option `--enable-thread-safe` at configure time. In
addition, option `--with-pthread` can be used to specify the path to the
pthreads library. This feature currently only supports one-thread-per-file
I/O operations and the classic CDF-1, 2, and 5 files.
PnetCDF can be built on top of NetCDF-4 library to let users to use PnetCDF
APIs to read and write a NetCDF-4 file. Users now can add NC_NETCDF4 flag
when calling ncmpi_create() to create NetCDF-4 files. For opening NetCDF-4
files, no additional flag is needed, as PnetCDF automatically detects the
file format and uses the corresponding I/O driver underneath.
+ Per-file thread-safe capability is added. This feature can be enabled at
configure time by adding command-line option `--enable-thread-safe`. In
addition, option `--with-pthread` can be used to specify the install path
to the pthreads library. This feature currently only supports
one-thread-per-file I/O operations and the classic CDF-1, 2, and 5 files.

* New optimization
+ none
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