WAVE
Portable HPC Toolbox for simulating and inverting wavefields

The aim of this project is the development of a HPC Toolbox for simulating and inverting acoustic and elastic waves.

Fields of application are related to geophysical studies but can be transferred to other fields where wave propagation plays a prominent role, for example medical ultrasonics.To simulate (acoustic) waves typically explicit finite difference solvers are used.

Specific goals of the wave project are:

• porting and further developing established FD algorithms into an C++ library
  
• implementing an adaptive grid to increase the spatial sampling for complex structures
  
• balancing the load for nodes on (heterogeneous) HPC systems
  
• providing a hardware-independent software
  

The HPC Toolbox will be tested as an example on seismic exploration data provided by TEEC GmbH.