netCDF Installations on Tetralith & Sigma

netCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.

How to run

If all you want to do is run the netCDF utilities:

nc-config
nccopy
ncdump
ncgen
ncgen3
ncxx4-config
nc-config

Simply directly load the utils module:

module load netCDF-HDF5-utils/4.9.2-1.12.2-hpc1-intel-2023a-eb

If you are compiling programs that require netcdf or hdf5 libraries, first load an appropriate toolchain (e.g. buildenv-intel/2023a-eb), and then load the corresponding netCDF-HDF5 module (e.g. netCDF-HDF5/4.9.2-1.12.2-hpc1)

module load buildenv-intel/2023a-eb
module load netCDF-HDF5/4.9.2-1.12.2-hpc1-intel-2023a-eb

Loading the netCDF-HDF5 module sets an environment variable ${NETCDF_DIR}. ${NETCDF_DIR} points to the base folder containing the netcdf installation. Sub-folders from ${NETCDF_DIR}:

bin
include
lib
share

You can build applications against the netCDF libraries using the include files in ${NETCDF_DIR}/include and pre-built libraries in ${NETCDF_DIR}/lib. e.g.

icc -I $NETCDF_DIR/include -L $NETCDF_DIR/lib -lnetcdf -lnetcdff