Supercomputers in Seismic Exploration

✍ Scribed by E. EISNER (Eds.)

Publisher: Pergamon Press
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 317
Series: Handbook of Geophysical Exploration: Seismic Exploration 21
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Handbook of Geophysical Exploration
Page II

Front Matter
Page III

Copyright page
Page IV

Preface
Pages V-VI
Elmer Eisner

CHAPTER 1 - Is 3-D Wave-Equation Modeling Feasible in the Next Ten Years?
Pages 1-10
L.J. BAKER

CHAPTER 2 - Three-Dimensional Seismic Processing, Migration, and Modeling Using Parallel Processing on Cray Supercomputers
Pages 11-34
MOSHE RESHEF, MICKEY EDWARDS

CHAPTER 3 - Wave Equation Computations and Truly Parallel Processing
Pages 35-54
OLAV HOLBERG

CHAPTER 4 - Advances in High Performance Processing of Seismic Data
Pages 55-80
ERNST L. LEISS, OLIN G. JOHNSON

CHAPTER 5 - Parallel and Optical Architectures for Modeling and Inversion
Pages 81-139
ALASTAIR D. MCAULAY

CHAPTER 6 - Seismic Data Processing on a Simd Array Parallel Supercomputer
Pages 140-158
SHUKI RONEN, ROBERT SCHREIBER

CHAPTER 7 - Hypercube Supercomputing
Pages 159-183
W.D. MOORHEAD

CHAPTER 8 - Large Scale Elastic Wavefield Inversion
Pages 184-202
PETER MORA, ALBERT TARANTOLA

CHAPTER 9 - The Future of Iterative Modeling in Geophysical Exploration
Pages 203-228
KURT J. MARFURT, C.S. SHIN

CHAPTER 10 - Application of Supercomputers in Three-Dimensional Seismic Modeling
Pages 229-251
IRSHAD R. MUFTI

CHAPTER 11 - A Fast Boundary Integral Solution for the Acoustic Response of Three-Dimensional Axi-Symmetric Scatterers
Pages 252-278
GERARD T. SCHUSTER

CHAPTER 12 - Supercomputers in Reservoir Simulation: Past, Present, and Future
Pages 279-308
THOMAS F. RUSSELL

Index
Pages 309-312

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