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JPL Old GEM
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The National GEM project
consists of a group of Geoscientists, physicists and computer scientists
working on new approaches to modeling the onset of earthquakes as the
fundamental physics of interacting fault segments. This involves novel parallel
algorithms and high performance oject oriented computing. We have conducted
aThe National GEM project consists of a group of Geoscientists, physicists and
computer scientists working on new approaches to modeling the onset of
earthquakes as the fundamental physics of interacting fault segments. This
involves novel parallel algorithms and high performance oject oriented
computing. We have conducted a workshop devoted to study of the possibility of developing the
computational capability to carry out large scale numerical simu lations of the
physics of earthquakes in southern California and elsewhere. These simulations
would produce detailed temporal and spatial patterns of earthquakes, surface
deformation and gravity changes,seismicity, stress as well as, in
principle, o ther variables, including pore fluid and thermal changes, for
comparison to field and laboratory data. To construct of the simulations, a
state-of-the-art problem solving environment must be developed that will
facilitate:
- Construction
of numerical and computational algorithms and specific environment(s) needed to
carry out large scale simulations of these nonlinear physical processes over a
geographically distri buted, heterogeneous computing network; and
- Development
of a testbed for earthquake "forecasting" and "prediction" methodologies
which
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