Global seismic tomography and modern parallel computers

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G. Soldati
L. Boschi
A. Piersanti

Abstract

A fast technological progress is providing seismic tomographers with computers
of rapidly increasing speed and RAM, that are not always properly taken
advantage of. Large computers with both shared-memory and distributedmemory
architectures have made it possible to approach the tomographic
inverse problem more accurately. For example, resolution can be quantified
from the resolution matrix rather than checkerboard tests; the covariance
matrix can be calculated to evaluate the propagation of errors from data to
model parameters; the L-curve method can be applied to determine a range
of acceptable regularization schemes. We show how these exercises can be
implemented efficiently on different hardware architectures.

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How to Cite
Soldati, G., Boschi, L. and Piersanti, A. (2006) “Global seismic tomography and modern parallel computers”, Annals of Geophysics, 49(4-5). doi: 10.4401/ag-4407.
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