Hi,
The HDF Group recently has prepared a report on the performance of netCDF-4
that uses benchmarks and examples to:
- compare the performance of netCDF-3 and netCDF-4
- discuss performance tuning with netCDF-4
- discuss performance pitfalls with netCDF-4
Some of the performance tuning and pitfalls discussions may also be of
interest to users of HDF5 who do not use netCDF-4.
The report is available
at http://www.hdfgroup.org/pubs/papers/2008-06_netcdf4_perf_report.pdf
Kent Yang from the HDF Group