Pnetcdf provides high-performance parallel i/o while still maintaining file-format compatibility with unidata's netcdf, specifically the formats of cdf-1 and cdf-2.

in addition, pnetcdf supports the cdf-5 file format, an extension of cdf-2, that supports more data types and allows users to define large dimensions, attributes, and variables (>2b elements).

this package provides the static library libpnetcdf.a