> I was thinking of reader workflows such as visualization in which each
> core might independently ask to read a small part of the file.

Uh, there a 4 GiB chunk would be a disaster indeed! No matter if you have the 
memory or not, reading 4 GiB of data to access, say 10 MiB is not the winner.

Cheers,
-Juha

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