NSF has funded a project to improve Distributed Data Reduction & Analysis (DDRA) by evolving NCO into a suite of Scientific Data Operators called SDO. The two main components of this project are NCO parallelism (OpenMP, MPI) and Server-Side DDRA (SSDDRA) implemented through extensions to OPeNDAP and netCDF4. This project will dramatically reduce bandwidth usage for NCO DDRA.
With this first NCO proposal funded, the content of the next NCO proposal is clear. We are interested in obtaining NASA support for HDF-specific enhancements to NCO. We plan to submit a proposal to the next suitable NASA NRA or NSF opportunity.
We are considering a lot of interesting ideas for still more proposals. Please contact us if you wish to be involved with any future NCO-related proposals. Comments on the proposals and letters of support are also very welcome.