SlabGenerator: Improving Productivity for Subduction Modeling

Poster presented at SIAM CSE17 PP108 Minisymposterium: Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE and Data Science

With the advent of efficient and scalable mantle convection 

code, such as Citcom, the vast majority of user time

in subduction modeling is spent constructing a problem instance through data assimilation, most often manually. Many

different data modalities need to be combined with analytical modeling. In addition, any software must also interoperate

with complex, existing packages for mantle convection. The SlabGenerator software generates thermal and viscosity

structures for large scale mantle convection simulations, processing many different data sources, greatly increasing

user productivity.