Delivering seismic processing products and/or research on the web


DRAFT AGENDA for
  1. last day of SEP meeting, May 16, 1996, Salishan, Oregon
  2. a one-week summer conference at Stanford, June 1996 ?

Mosaic and Netscape showed us how to deliver words and pictures to anyone in the world, customers, sponsors, students, and future generations. Netscape with Java has begun dispensing safe programs. Many of us have seismic products and research that we want to deliver:


SEP contribution

SEP has considerable experience preparing reproducible research on CD-ROM. Textbooks and research reports are delivered in a form that allows recipient sponsors and students to rebuild a large category of illustrations from the underlying programs and data.

Java is a Sun Microsystems product that combined with Netscape delivers executable content on the recipient's machine. An SEP pilot Java project is nearly ready to deliver these software products on beta Netscape 2.0 now running on SGI, IBM, HP, PC, and Sun machines. SEP's pilot Java project contains

  1. a finite-difference wave equation solver.
  2. A movie frame viewer
  3. A seismic data cube dicer.

Chuck Mosher at ARCO

is interested in benchmarking parallel computers. He has prepared an environment that is intended to be shared by supercomputer vendors submitting platforms as well as petroleum industry members submitting test suites. He seeks to distribute this evolving environment to all comers. Now he distributes diskettes but perhaps the web is a better medium.