The serial version behaves as an independent library that has no knowledge of parallel processing.
Different Processors can create, open, access different netCDF files asynchronously.
However, if different processors open and write to the same file, resulting file may contain erroneous data. Because some applications cannot accommodate this restriction, a serial version is also installed. The makefile that illustrates the use of environment variables set up by the module load command. The makefile that illustrates the paths.