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From: mo-marqh <87382490+mo-marqh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 13:56:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Create readme.md

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+read4D
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+This example reads in a sample NetCDF file of 4D structured data (data payload is `missing`).
+XIOS simply reads data from that file into memory.
+
+This is designed to be extensible, enabling much larger files to be read,
+across multiple client and server ranks, and performance analyses undertaken