HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN SEISMOLOGY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

   

1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 
   
   Historical Role of Computing in Seismology,  
   High-Performance Computing,  
   Funding for High-Performance Computing in Seismology,  
   Parallel Computing,  

      
2. SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES  
   Examples of Research Issues,  
   
   Strong Motion Response of Sedimentary Basins,  
   Earthquake Rupture Processes,  
   Computation of Seismic Wave Propagation,  
   Discrimination Between Earthquakes and Nuclear Explosions,  
   Seismic Imaging for Natural Resource Exploration,  
   Imaging the Earth's Plates,  
   Whole-Earth Imaging,  
   Data Acquisition and Archiving,  
   
   High-Performance Computing Examples,  
   
   Three-Dimensional Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation in a Sedimentary Basin,  
   A Nonlinear Problem: Interacting Earthquake Faults,  
   Elastodynamic Simulations of Earthquake Rupture,  
   Computational Methods for Simulations of Seismic Wave Propagation,  
   Simulations of Subsurface Nuclear Explosions,  
   Three-Dimensional Seismic Imaging,  
   Visualization of Subsurface Seismic Images,  
   Elastic Travel Time and Waveform Inversion of Cross-Hole Seismic Data,  
   Simulation of the Seismic Response for Realistic Crustal Models,  
   Tomographic Images of the Earth's Interior,  
   Conclusions,  
   
   Hardware,  
   Software,  
   Scientific Understanding,  

      
3. RECOMMENDATIONS 

REFERENCES  

APPENDIX A:   Workshop Participants 

APPENDIX B:   Workshop Presentations 

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