A simulation of seismic wave propagation at high resolution in the inner core of the earth on 2166 processors of MareNostrum

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5336 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 364-377

  Komatitsch, Dimitri ^a,b   Labarta, Jesús ^c   Michéa, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cache misses; Global Earth; Load balancing; Mesh partitioning; Seismic wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELASTIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; CACHE MISSES; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; GLOBAL EARTH; GRID POINTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INNER CORES; LOAD BALANCING; MASS MATRIXES; MESH PARTITIONING; MESH POINTS; OVERALL PERFORMANCES; POWERPC; SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATIONS;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EID: 58349102183     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92859-1_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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