I have 3 dimension data A=<1500x360x720> in netcdf format. Then the message 'error Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options' occurs when I trying to retrieve all data. However when it does work when I extracted only A=<100x360x720> data. Then I changed my PC's memory (2G), but I found the similar results. 
Could anybody helped me out of this issue?

thanks

yus

"yusuf awal" <awaludinium@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>I have 3 dimension data A=<1500x360x720> in netcdf format. Then the message 
>'error Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options' occurs when I 
>trying to retrieve all data. However when it does work when I extracted 
>only A=<100x360x720> data. Then I changed my PC's memory (2G), but I found 
>the similar results. Could anybody helped me out of this issue?

A 1500-by-360-by-720 full array of real double precision values in MATLAB 
requires:

>> numElements = 1500*360*720;
>> numBytes = 8*numElements;
>> GB = numBytes/(1024^3)

GB =

    2.8968

almost 3 GB of contiguous memory just to store.  You'll need additional 
contiguous blocks of memory to store temporary copies if you want to 
actually _do_ something with that array.  If you're on a 32-bit OS you're 
not going to be able to obtain that much memory.  Even on a 64-bit OS, using 
a 64-bit version of MATLAB, if your memory is fragmented or you have 
additional arrays in memory, it could be tough getting that large a block of 
contiguous memory.  Read the following document for some background on 
memory management in MATLAB.

http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1100/1106.html

I think your best solution is going to be to find some way to read your data 
in "chunks" and process each chunk sequentially.

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