maintaining file-format compatibility with Unidata's NetCDF. NetCDF gives
scientific programmers a space-efficient and portable means for storing data.
However, it does so in a serial manner, making it difficult to achieve high
I/O performance. By making some small changes to the API specified by NetCDF,
we can use MPI-IO and its collective operations.
WWW: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf
PR: ports/112265
Submitted by: Chao Shin <quakelee at cn.FreeBSD.org>
