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Title: [Generation of a synthetic seismic data base]. Final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/215720· OSTI ID:215720
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  1. Mission Research Corp., Los Alamos, NM (United States)

A consortium (Los Alamos, Sandia, OR, Livermore) have been collaborating under the GONII project to generate a synthetic seismic data base. Two deliverables were a common code that would run on the various site machines, and the use of these codes to generate parts of the final data base. The data base consists of a large number of shots applied to two geographic models developed by another part of GONII, the salt model and the overthrust model,s which were supplied as large files containing propagation velocity on a 3-D grid. Los Alamos was supplied with the source code of a seismic propagation code written by the French Petroleum Institute. A decision was made to port a subset of the code to Fortran on a node. Part of this contract was spent verifying/debugging the Fortran on a node code; a port of the code was made to run on the Cray. A total of 846 shots were run on the CM5. It was found that files on the SDA are not safe from corruption and the model velocity file may change.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Mission Research Corp., Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
215720
Report Number(s):
LA-SUB-96-66; ON: DE96009557
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 22 Oct 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English