Hi Mark, On May 13, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Mark Howison wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Quincey Koziol <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is each individual file created in the first phase accessed in >> parallel later? If so, it might be reasonable to use the core VFD for >> creating the files, then close all the files and re-open them with the >> MPI-IO VFD. > > Yes, that is exactly how we are accessing the files. So if we use the > core VFD for the file writes, the metadata will be cached in memory > and only written at file close, like Mark described? And it will be > written in one large, contiguous piece? Yes & yes. Quincey _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
