[MITgcm-support] Forcing dataset check

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Martin et al,


> On Jul 1, 2015, at  8:40 AM, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:
> 
>  (ieee-big endian unblocked, so that they can be opened in fortran with direct access) 

Off topic, but I keep hearing this.  Is this true if your underlying architecture is little-endian?  Is there some kind of performance penalty to little-endian i/o on an intel cluster?  

Thanks,   Jody