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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 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