Well I did nt chunked anything so I guess it is contiguous
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Quincey Koziol [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:50 AM
To: HDF Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] memory requirement
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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