From 3999f6e31d927c8b1dd771bbe7a3b948640a9ae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei-keng Liao Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 00:03:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update netcdf-4 feature description --- sneak_peek.md | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/sneak_peek.md b/sneak_peek.md index 876c589df..2af9467f3 100644 --- a/sneak_peek.md +++ b/sneak_peek.md @@ -4,15 +4,16 @@ This is essentially a placeholder for the next release note ... * 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