Hi Barbara,

On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Collignon, Barbara C. wrote:

> Well I did nt chunked anything so I guess it is contiguous

        How many datasets are in the file?

                Quincey

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> 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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