Solving 3D Anisotropic Elastic Wave Equations on Parallel GPU Devices

Acknowledgments

This research was partly funded by the sponsors of the UWA:RM consortium. We thank Paul Sava for the CPU versions of the ewefd2d and ewefd3d modeling codes, and David Lumley and Matt James for constructive conversations. We thank NVIDIA for the GTX 480 and C2070 GPU cards used for research and development through the CUDA Research Center Program and a Professor Partnership Grant. We thank Joe Dellinger, Chris Leader and two anonymous reviewers for insightful comments and for helping to verify the modeling codes. The reproducible numeric examples use the Madagascar open-source package (http://www.reproducibility.org). Shragge acknowledges WAERA support through a Research Fellowship. We also acknowledge Professor David A. Yuen from the University of Minnesota for assistance in testing our software.