FUTURE WORK

There several additional features that could be added to the current libraries' capabilities. As mentioned earlier an arbitrary description about how the data is distributed along an axis would be useful. This would allow for better load balancing, redistributing of tasks on a restart, and for operations that perform some type of windowing.

The most obvious place for work is to add recognition of distributed datasets to more SEPlib programs. Currently only the generic SEPlib utilities Window3d and In3d are aware of distributed datasets. Adding awareness to program like Headermath would be helpful. More application programs could/should be converted. Currently Transf, Nmo3d, Phase, CAM, Rtm2D, and Fdmod are distributed dataset aware. Almost all of SEP's current application programs could benefit from conversion.