AFAICT, AdaptableStorage is designed to allow this kind of thing. Shane?
Sounds interesting. I am going to search for this.
Yes, it is. I don't know anything about NetCDF, but it sounds intriguing. I guess NetCDF is not just an encoding format, but also some kind of database for large arrays.
Shane
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/index.html NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is an interface for array-oriented data access and a library that provides an implementation of the interface. The netCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. Python interface is contained in Konrad Hinsens Scientifc package http://starship.python.net/~hinsen/ScientificPython/ Mike