Austin 2012

Madagascar School and Workshop on Reproducible Computational Geophysics

 

Agenda

Day 1: Friday, July 20, 2012
8:00-9:00	Coffee/pastries/installation
	Bring your laptop and get help getting Madagascar installed.
9:00-10:15	Introduction (Sergey Fomel)
	The Madagascar open-source project has been in public existence for six years. Madagascar provides a complete environment for organizing one's research, from new software development to running computational experiments to publishing the computational results in papers and reports, archiving them for future usage, and sharing them with colleagues or sponsors. The introductory presentation will describe the history of the project, the Madagascar components and design principles, and plans for future development.
10:15-10:30	break
10:30-12:00	Introductory exercise (Siwei Li)
	This lecture will be interactive: you will be provided some scratch scripts for modification during the presentation. Feel free to stop the lecturer whenever you have trouble fulfilling a task before he proceeds to a higher level knowledge. The main task is to familiarize you with basic SConstruct interfaces for function calling and graphic plotting, as well as a first glance on typical Madagascar C code.
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:30	Madagascar fundamentals: RSF file format, command-line programs, and SCons (Sergey Fomel)
	Madagascar programs operate on data stored in RSF (regularly sampled) data format. They can be run from the command line, Unix shell scripts, or (more conveniently) using SCons. I will describe the rational behind this design and the basics of working with Madagascar.
2:30-2:45	break
2:45-3:30	Vplot graphics(Parvaneh Karimi)
3:30-5:00	Seismic Field Data Processing (Salah Alhadab and Yihua Cai)
	In this session we will demonstrate how to use Madagascar to process both land and marine data. Examples of this session can be found in book/data/Alaska and /book/rsf/su/rsflab16. We will walk you through the basic processing workflow in Madagascar, from fetch the data, read in SEGY file to migration. In the marine part, Salah will explain how to use parabolic Radon Transform to do multiple attenuation step by step. We will be able to show Madagascar is a great tool compared with other open source packages. It will be a hands on tour. We will explain Madagascar script line by line. You will be able to download the data and repeat all our results.
5:30-8:30	Wine reception and dinner at Maggiano's

 

Day 2: Saturday, July 21, 2012
8:00-9:00	Coffee/pastries/installation
	Bring your laptop and get help getting Madagascar installed.
9:00-12:00	Seismic wavefield imaging and Writing Research Papers (Paul Sava)
	The theoretical part of this module provides an overview of reverse-time imaging methodology applied to wavefield seismic data. The main technique discussed is reverse-time migration developed under the single-scattering assumption. The applied part demonstrates this technique on a complex geologic model using Madagascar codes in a fully reproducible setup. We will conclude by generating reproducible documents constructed using LaTeX.
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:45	Developing your own programs in Madagascar (Jingwei Hu)
	There are many programs already built into the Madagascar project, but if you use Madagascar long enough you will eventually run into a problem that you cannot solve using only provided codes. Fortunately, Madagascar has a variety of programming language APIs already built, that allow you to: design, code, and integrate your programs into the Madagascar framework. This session will discuss an overview of the Madagascar APIs, and then focus in particular on the C++ APIs. By the end of the session, you should have a good starting point for developing your own codes, and adding them to the growing library of open-source software available in Madagascar.
1:45-2:30	Python and Graphical User Interfaces (Sergey Fomel)
	The Python programming language is convenient not only for writing processing scripts with SCons but also for performing direct manipulations with Madagascar files and programs through the Python programming interface. Additionally, Python makes it easy to control data processing through GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) or web interfaces.
2:30-2:45	break
2:45-3:30	Parallel processing with Madagascar (Esteban Díaz)
	Today's HPC (High Performance Computing) systems provide us with great calculation power. Therefore, we should be able to use our resources at its maximum extent via parallelization. Madagascar provides us with several options to improve our computing efficiency: using SCons, at the source code level or both. We will measure the performance of each approach using a simple example. After this presentation, you should be able to exploit the resources of your system.
3:30-4:15	Contributing your code to Madagascar (Sergey Fomel)
	The final presentation will describe different ways of participating in the Madagascar community and contributing to the development.
4:15-5:00	Discussion
	Open Q&A session and discussions on the future development of Madagascar.

Registration

Registration is required to attend this event. The registration deadline is July 15, 2012.

The registration fee is $200. Registration includes lunch and dinner and is complimentary for students.

Please register by following this link.

Location

Room ROC 1.603
Texas Advanced Computing Center
The University of Texas at Austin

Address

• J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Building 196
• 10100 Burnet Road (R2200)
• Austin, Texas 78758-4445, USA
• Directions
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Dinner Location

Maggiano's

• 10910 Domain Drive, Suite 100
• Austin, Texas 78758
• Directions

Host Organization

Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin

Speakers

• Salah Alhadab joined Saudi Aramco as Geophysical System Analyst in 2003, after receiving a BS degree in Computer Science. He worked at the Seismic Data Processing Support Group in Saudi Aramco before coming to the University of Texas at Austin, where he is pursuing an MS degree.
• Yihua Cai graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a Master's degree in geophysics in May. He joined Shell Exploration & Production Company, Upstream Americas as a geophysicist in June 2012. He received a Master's degree in statistics and mathematics at UT Austin in 2009. His interests are seismic data processing and seismic attributes analysis. Madagascar is one of his favorite tools in research and data processing work.
• Esteban Díaz is a graduate student at the Center for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines, currently enrolled in the M.Sc. program. He is a geophysical engineer (2008) from the Universidad Simón Bolívar. He has worked in seismic data processing and depth imaging. His research interests are image processing, depth imaging, migration velocity analysis and geostatistics.
• Sergey Fomel has been working at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin since 2002 and currently has an Associate Professor appointment, jointly with the Department of Geological Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001 and worked previously at the Institute of Geophysics in Novosibirsk, Russia, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Sergey started work on Madagascar (at that time named RSF for Regularly Sampled Format) in 2003. http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/sergey_fomel/
• Jingwei Hu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), the University of Texas at Austin. Jingwei received her BS degree (2006) in computational mathematics from Peking University, China, and her PhD degree (2011) in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests are numerical methods and applied analysis for kinetic theory, conservation laws, quantum mechanics, high frequency waves, and seismic imaging. http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~hu/
• Parvaneh Karimi received her BS in Mining Engineering from Shahid Bahonar University, Iran, and her master's degree in Geophysics (Exploration Seismology) from the University of Tehran. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Siwei Li graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor's Degree in Geophysics and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Paul Sava is an Associate Professor of Geophysics and a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena at Colorado School of Mines. He holds an Engineering degree in Geophysics (1995) from the University of Bucharest, an M.Sc. (1998) and a Ph.D. (2004) in Geophysics from Stanford University where he was a member of the Stanford Exploration Project. His research interests are in wavefield seismic imaging, stochastic imaging and inversion, computational methods for wave propagation, numeric optimization and high performance computing. http://newton.mines.edu/paul/home.php

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