Re: [AMBER] Compressing trajectory file

From: David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:09:34 -0500

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, Setyanto Md wrote:
>
> I have trajectory files. there are 50 files totally around 18 GB. The
> trajectory was written in netcdf format.
>
> I tried to compress using bzip2. The size of output file only 17 GB. only 1
> GB differences with the original file.
>
> Is this because the netcdf format ? or the bzip2 is not good for
> compressing ?

To add to the previous reply: netcdf is already a binary file, and will not
allow much further compression.

....dac


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