• I/O bottlenecks for HPC worsen
• Use of massively parallel shared-nothing file systems spreads
• Data generated too fast to store, filtering becomes priority
• Multi-resolution wavelet representations get popular
• Non-volatile memory technologies replace disks, change programming
• Lack of organizational support leads to loss of Valuable Data
• Format-independent conventions evolve too slowly

2012 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > The Future of netCDF