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Big, small and everything in between: simulating our world using scientific computing

Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University

Posted: March 31, 2009
Talk given: February 15, 2009

During a symposium at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Princeton seismologist Jeroen Tromp describes his team's efforts to simulate global seismic wave propagation, a frontier that can be explored only through large-scale computation. He will describe problems that the sustained petascale computing power of Blue Waters will help seismologists address.

Running time: 27:36
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