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  process 0 writes character field (16 elements)
  process 1 writes integer field (16 elements)
  process 2 writes double field (16 elements)
  process 3 writes real filedfield (16 elements)

However, this is NOT currently supported by the HDF5 library (i.e. C example fails tooit fails by writing the wrong value). It will take a lot of work to implement this, but it could be done.

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