Title :
Large scale parallel and distributed simulations and visualizations of the Olami-Feder-Christiensen earthquake model
Author :
Hernandez, Gonzalo
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng., Andres Bello Nat. Univ., Santiago, Chile
Abstract :
In this paper we present numerical results and visualizations obtained from large-scale parallel and distributed simulations of the Olami-Feder-Christiensen (OFC) earthquake model. This model is a two-dimensional cellular automata, constructed in order to simulate earthquake activity. For this model we determine its exponents of the power law behavior of the histogram of the size of earthquakes; we study the final state for several values of the parameters of the model; and we determine dynamic behavior by visualizations of the site frequency histogram
Keywords :
cellular automata; data visualisation; digital simulation; earthquakes; geophysics computing; seismic waves; Olami-Feder-Christiensen earthquake model; distributed simulations; large scale parallel simulations; numerical results; site frequency histogram; two-dimensional cellular automata; visualizations; Context modeling; Earthquake engineering; Equations; Fractals; Frequency; Geology; Histograms; Large-scale systems; Springs; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium., Proceedings 15th International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0990-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2001.924934
