Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckins...@debian.org>
* Package name : pnetcdf Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Author : Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory * URL : https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : parallel netCDF library for scientific I/O PnetCDF is a library providing high-performance parallel I/O while still maintaining file-format compatibility with Unidata's NetCDF, specifically the formats of CDF-1 and CDF-2. Although NetCDF supports parallel I/O starting from version 4, the files must be in HDF5 format. PnetCDF is currently the only choice for carrying out parallel I/O on files that are in classic formats (CDF-1 and 2). . In addition, PnetCDF supports the CDF-5 file format, an extension of CDF-2, that supports more data types and allows users to define large dimensions, attributes, and variables (>2B elements). . This package will be used as a dependency of the NetCDF package already present in Debian to provide additional functionality, and when stable will be co-maintained in the Debian GIS project.