On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Blaise A Bourdin wrote: > There are two ways to write parallel netcdf files: > > Use netcdf-4 (hdf5 based) files > Use pnetcdf and old-style netcdf files. > > Perhaps the best would be to compile netcdf with pnetcdf support only if > petsc is configured with exodusii? I can send a patch this afternoon.
Current code already does this. i.e pnetcdf is an optional [i.e not mandatory] dependency for netcdf For now - I'm disabling pnetcdf+exodus from this test case. [until this issue gets resolved] Satish > Greg Sjaardema, the exodus maintainer, has been very responsive, I will try > to iron out the last exodus / netcdf-4 bugs, but it sure would be noce to be > able to read / write old style files too… > > Blaise > > > > > On Dec 19, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Dec 19, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org> wrote: > >> > >> Does ExodusII write pnetcdf? It's a different interface from (parallel) > >> NetCDF4. > > > > Shudder! > > > >> > >> Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >>> Blaise really wants to write in parallel. It would be better to use HDF5, > >>> but evidently > >>> it is broken in ExodusII. Thats what we get for using something from > >>> Sandia. They > >>> finally have their revenge. > >>> > >>> Matt > >>> > >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Do you really need to use pnetcdf? No one uses it and what usefulness > >>>> does it really provide, best to be avoided. > >>>> > >>>> Barry > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> On Dec 19, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> parallel-netcdf-1.9.0.pre1/INSTALL has: > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> 4. Reporting Installation or Usage Problems > >>>>> =========================================== > >>>>> > >>>>> Please send an email to parallel-net...@mcs.anl.gov > >>>>> > >>>>> <<<<<< > >>>>> > >>>>> We'll have to send in these bug reports. > >>>>> > >>>>> Satish > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> The configure is broken, perhaps beyond fixing. I need to give > >>>> --with-mpi > >>>>>> to get anything > >>>>>> to work because the way it checks for MPI is screwed up. I will see if > >>>>>> I > >>>>>> can throw away all its idiotic configure stuff in favor of just telling > >>>> it > >>>>>> everything, but I am not eager to depend on something so rickety. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Matt > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their > >>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their > >>> experiments lead. > >>> -- Norbert Wiener > >>> > >>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/> > > > >