The Solution of the Seismic One Way Equation on Parallel Computers

The basic mathematical model for seismic migration calculations is the acoustic one way wave equation. Several different approaches to this partial differential equation are introduced. Special care is given to detecting inherent parallel structures in the numerical solution schemes. It is shown that alternative formulations of the problem may lead to an increase in parallelism allowing for an efficient use of tightly coupled multitasking capabilities of current vector multiprocessors.