Quake project: 2003 Gordon Bell Award

At SC2003 in Phoenix, the Carnegie Mellon Quake project was awarded the 2003 Gordon Bell Award for Special Achievement.

Award winning entry

Volkan Akcelik, Jacobo Bielak, George Biros, Ioannis Epanomeritakis, Antonio Fernandez, Omar Ghattas, Eui Joong Kim, Julio Lopez, David R. O'Hallaron, Tiankai Tu, and John Urbanic. High Resolution Forward and Inverse Earthquake Modeling on Terasacale Computers, Proceedings of SC2003, Phoenix, AZ, November, 2003. (pdf, bib).

The milestone calculations for the award included:

  • The generation of a record unstructured hex mesh
    (3.7 billion elements, 4 billion nodes)
  • The largest unstructured mesh wave propagation simulation
    (900 million elements, 3.2 billion DOF)
  • The largest acoustic wave propagation inverse problem
    (17 million inversion parameters, 70 billion total unknowns)
  • The largest elastic wave propagation inverse problem
    (275,000 inversion parameters, something like a billion total unknowns).

Articles about the award