Subject: Re: Request to review a paper C501 From: Hiroshi Okuda Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 15:47:27 +0900 To: fox@csit.fsu.edu CC: okuda@q.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Dear Dr.Fox, This is Hiroshi OKUDA, Univ. of Tokyo. I have found that I forgot to do this. I am terribly sorry for it. I will review this imediately after ACES WS in Maui. Yours, Okuda >I wondered if you or one of your colleagues could referee this paper for our Special issue >The deadline I have set is June 15 2001. I thank you for your help and hope to see >you in Maui > Geoffrey Fox > >-------------------------------- ACES Special Issue ------------------------------ >ACES is the APEC (the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Cooperation for Earthquake >Simulation > >see http://quakes.earth.uq.edu.au/ACES and >http://www.quakes.uq.edu.au/ACES/WG/WG5/index.html >This paper is one of a set on computational approaches to Earthquake Science >and the issue will contain both application and computer science related papers >Please be tolerant of "interdisciplinary issues" in review! > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >I am editor for a practical computer/computational science journal >Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience. > >I thought you might be able to provide me a referee report by June 15 2001 on the paper >C501: Parallelization of a Large-Scale Computational Earthquake Simulation Program >http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CCPEwebresource/C501tiampo/Parallel.pdf > >Abstract:Here we detail both the methods and preliminary results of first efforts >to parallelize two General Earthquake Model (GEM)-related codes: 1) a relatively >simple data mining procedure based on a Genetic Algorithm; and 2) the Virtual >California simulation of GEM . These preliminary results, using a simple, >heterogeneous processor system, existing freeware, and with an extremely low cost >of both manpower and hardware dollars, motivate us to more ambitious work with >considerably larger-scale computer earthquake simulations of southern California. >The GEM computational problem, which is essentially a Monte Carlo simulation, is >well suited to optimization on parallel computers, and we outline how we are >proceeding in implementing this new software architecture. > >K.F. Tiampo , J.B. Rundle , S. Gross and S. McGinnis >Colorado Center for Chaos & Complexity, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, >80309, USA >Email: kristy@caldera.colorado.edu > >I am switching the journal to completely electronic form and hope you could email >me a report. Please send a short email if you can or cannot do this > >Please do this in "free form" mentioning paper metadata above >Alternatively use form appended. >Note you can find the form and some other information at: >http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CandCPandE/index.html > >Thank you > Geoffrey > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >CandC:PandE Referee Report Form -- Electronic Transimission to >fox@csit.fsu.edu strongly preferred >Referees Web Page: http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/CandCPandE/ >Email fox@csit.fsu.edu for URL of full paper to be reviewed > >WILEY Journal Home Page >http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc?ID=5361 > >John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. >Baffins Lane, Chichester >West Sussex, PO19 1UD, England >Telephone: (01243) 779777 >Fax: (01243) 770379 > > REFEREE'S REPORT > > Concurrency and Computation:Practice and Experience > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >A: General Information > > Please return to: > Geoffrey C. 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