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Mission

| The SPECFEM project is dedicated to Dimitri Komatitsch and open-source development. Our goal is to advance Earth sciences by providing computational tools to the community. | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle"} |

Team

A major involvement in the development and maintenance of the SPECFEM project is done by:

| {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University
Founder of SPECFEM codes (together with Dimitri Komatitsch) | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Daniel Peter
Lead developer and maintainer of SPECFEM codes | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Vadim Monteiller, LMA Marseille
Developer and maintainer of SPECFEM codes | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Hom Nath Gharti, Queen's University
Developer and maintainer of SPECFEM codes | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks
User training and developer meeting organizer | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Qinya Liu, University of Toronto
Adjoint code capabilities, developer meeting organizer | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines
Global inversions and Mars in SPECFEM3D Globe | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Jean-Paul Ampuero, Geoazur Laboratory
Fault rupture dynamics in SPECFEM3D Cartesian code | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Emanuele Casarotti, INGV
Meshing expert | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Rohit Kakodkar, Princeton University
Software engineer for future code development | | {:height="auto" width="100px" class="circle middle grow"} | Bryant Chow, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Lead developer of adjTomo tools |

Contributions to these open-source codes come from many authors. Please find the authors list in the corresponding code repositories.

Milestones

A short timeline of major SPECFEM achievements:

2015

K computer simulation
> 1.24 PFlops

(shortest period ~ 1.2 s)
on 82,134 nodes, 82,134 MPI ranks w/ 8 OpenMP threads, 657,072 cores

2013

Blue Waters XE6 simulation
> 1 PFlops

(shortest period < 2 s)
on 21,675 XE nodes, 693,600 MPI ranks, 693,600 cores

2010

BULL Joseph Fourier Prize winner

for the partial GPU port of SPECFEM3D Globe

2008

ACM Gordon Bell Finalist

for SPECFEM3D Globe simulation reaching resolution of 1.72s shortest period

2008

Kraken XT5 simulation
> 160 TFlops

(shortest period ~1.72 s)
on 149,784 cores

2003

ACM Gordon Bell Award

for Best Performance of SPECFEM3D Globe simulation on the Earth Simulator

2003

Earth Simulator simulation
> 5 TFlops

(shortest period ~5 s)
on 243 nodes, 1,944 MPI ranks, 1,944 cores