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Introduction

History
Acknowledgments
Reproducible research
Publications and Citing SeisSol

Installing SeisSol

Building SeisSol
Installing dependencies
Compiling and running SeisSol
SeisSol with GPUs
Running SeisSol
A first example
Build parameter reference
Build architectures
Environment variables
Frequent build and running issues

Running SeisSol on Supercomputers

Accessing internet behind a firewall
SuperMUC-NG
Shaheen
Frontera
Frontier
Heisenbug
Leonardo
LUMI
SuperMUC NG Phase 2
CoolMUC4

Setting Up Simulations

Configuration
Parameter file
Initial Conditions
Local time-stepping (LTS)
Left lateral, right lateral, normal, reverse
easi
Memory requirements
Fault tagging

Structural models and Meshing

CAD models
Meshing with SimModeler
Mesh Conversion PUMGen
Gmsh
ASAGI
Mesh Input Formats

Seismic Source

Dynamic rupture
Slip-rate imposed on a DR boundary
Multiple point-sources
Point source (older implementation)

Output

The IO Infrastructure (Beta)
Off fault receivers
Fault output
Free surface output
Wave field output
Energy output
Checkpointing (Beta)
Postprocessing and Visualization

Further documentation

Computing time vs order of accuracy
Performance measurement
Attenuation
Physical Models
Scaling
Known issues
Breaking changes in backward compatibility

Meshing Tutorials

SimModeler CAD workflow
Generating a CAD model using GOCAD: basic tutorial
Proposed workflow for generating a CAD model of a megathrust earthquake
Generating a CAD model for a fully-coupled earthquake-tsunami simulation
Remeshing the topography
Adapting the CAD model resolution using Gocad
Manually fixing an intersection in Gocad

Cookbook

Overview
SCEC TPV5
SCEC TPV6
SCEC TPV12
SCEC TPV13
SCEC TPV16/17
SCEC TPV24
SCEC TPV29
SCEC TPV34
SCEC TPV104
SISMOWINE WP2_LOH1
Kinematic source example - 1994 Northridge earthquake
Copyrights

Developer Guide

Basic code structure

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