Hi Barbara,
On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Collignon, Barbara C. wrote:
>
> I have a HDF5 file ~500MB that is opened for parallel access and independent
> read (each process reads his own part of the file).
>
> I thought the memory requirement would be 500MB/Number_of_processes...but I
> have memory failures and I was wondering whether it could be much more than
> that ?
It should be in that range of memory, plus a little for buffering and
caching. Is the dataset chunked or contiguous?
Quincey
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