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Show CONTENTS ABSTRACT .... LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTERS 1. CONCURRENT SCALABLE COMPUTING: FOUNDATION AND DEFINITIONS . 1.1 Instructions and Data 1.2 Concurrency, Scalability, Communication, and Synchronization . 1.3 Performance Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. SOLUTION OF THE ELASTIC WAVE EQUATION 2.1 Fourth-Order Accurate Finite Differences 2.2 The Elastic Wave Equation 2.:3 Staggered Grid Formulation 2.4 Sequential Algorithm 3. PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION OF ELASTIC WAVES . . . .. . 3.1 Parallel Distributed Algorithm 3.2 Analytical Solution . . . . . 3.3 Speedup, Scalability, and Parallel Efficiency 4. SAMPLE SIMULATIONS 4.1 Snapshots from a Homogeneous Halfspace 4.2 A Two-Layer Model . . . . 4.3 Acoustic/Elastic Boundaries 4.4 Complex Structures 5. CONCLUSIONS .... iv vii viii . IX 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 11 16 16 18 19 29 29 36 36 36 44 |
