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• Simulation features supported in SPECFEM3D Cartesian

Simulation features supported in SPECFEM3D Cartesian

The following lists all available features for a SPECFEM3D Cartesian simulation, where CPU, CUDA and HIP denote the code versions for CPU-only simulations, CUDA and HIP hardware support, respectively.

Feature		CPU	CUDA	HIP
Physics	Acoustic	X	X	X
	Elastic	X	X	X
	Poroelastic	X	-	-
	Ocean load / Topography	X	X	X
	Gravity field / integrals	X	X	X
	Anisotropy	X	X	X
	Attenuation	X	X	X
Simulation Setup	Noise simulations	X	X	X
	Fault rupture dynamic/kinematic	X	X	X
	Wavefield injection/coupling	X	X	X
	C-PML	X	-	-
	Simultaneous runs	X	X	X
	ADIOS file I/O	X	X	X
	HDF5 file I/O	X	X	X
	FWI framework	X	X	X
Meshing	in-house mesher	X	-	-
	external (CUBIT/Trelis,Gmsh)	X	-	-
	UTM projection	X	-	-
	Cavity	X	-	-
	SCOTCH/Metis/PaToH/Rows partitioning	X	-	-
Sensitivity kernels	Undoing of attenuation	X	X	X
	Anisotropic kernels	X	X	X
	Transversely isotropic kernels	X	X	X
	Isotropic kernels	X	X	X
	Moho boundary kernels	X	-	-
	Approximate Hessian	X	X	X
Time schemes	Newmark	X	X	X
	LDDRK	X	-	-
	local-time stepping (LTS)	X	-	-
Visualization	ShakeMap	X	X	X
	Surface movie	X	X	X
	Volumetric movie	X	X	X
	VTK runtime-vis	X	X	X
Seismogram formats	Ascii	X	X	X
	SU	X	X	X
	ASDF	X	X	X
	HDF5	X	X	X
	Binary	X	X	X
	down-sampling	X	X	X

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