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Further, the user agrees to credit MCNC and BAMS in any publications that result from the use of this software or in any product that includes this software. The names MCNC and/or North Carolina Supercomputing Center, however, may not be used in any advertising or publicity to endorse or promote any products or commercial entity unless specific written permission is obtained from MCNC. The user also understands that MCNC is not obligated to provide the user with any support, consulting, training or assistance of any kind with regard to the use, operation and performance of this software nor to provide the user with any updates, revisions, new versions or "bug fixes."
Further, note that the EDSS/Models-3 I/O API depends in an essential
manner upon the contents of INCLUDE files ATTDSC3.EXT
,
PARMS3.EXT
, FDESC3.EXT
,
IODECL3.EXT
, attdsc3.h
,
parms3.h
, fdesc3.h
, and
iodecl3.h
. Any changes are likely to result in
very obscure, difficult-to-diagnose bugs caused by an inconsistency
between standard libioapi.a object-libraries and whatever
code is compiled with the resulting modified
INCLUDE
-file. By making any changes to any of these
INCLUDE
files, the user explicitly agrees that
in the case any assistance is required of MCNC, BAMS, or of
the I/O API author, Carlie J. Coats, Jr. as a result
of such changes, the user and/or his project or contract agrees to
reimburse BAMS and/or the I/O API author,
Carlie J. Coats, Jr., at a rate triple the normal
contract rate for the services required.
Comments and questions are welcome and can be sent to robert.imhoff@baronams.com or
Carlie J. Coats, Jr.
Environmental Modeling Center
920 Main Campus Drive, Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27606
The author would also like to thank the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and its technology-transfer arm Unidata, on top of whose netCDF interface for persistent data access the I/O API was built, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, on top of whose PVM-3 mailbox system the cooperating-process coupling-mode of the I/O API was built. Without these, it would have been much more difficult to construct an easy-to-use, multi-mode modeler-oriented machine-independent selective direct access interface to air-quality-oriented data.
Carlie J. Coats, Jr., Ph.D. | cjcoats@email.unc.edu |
UNC Institute for the Environment | phone: (919)843-5951 |
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