Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics

The Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

-sponsored collaborative effort to improve geodynamic

Geodynamics

Geodynamics is a subfield of geophysics dealing with dynamics of the Earth. It applies physics, chemistry and mathematics to the understanding of how mantle convection leads to plate tectonics and geologic phenomena such as seafloor spreading, mountain building, volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting and...

modelling and maintain software for fields related to geophysics

Geophysics

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

. A major goal of CIG is to provide "a coordinated effort to develop reusable, well-documented and open-source

Open-source software

Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...

geodynamics software."

Software packages currently supported include:

Computational Science: Cigma, Geodynamics AMR Suite (deal.II), Exchanger, and Pythia/Pyre.
Computational Seismology: Flexwin, Mineos, SPECFEM3D_GLOBE, SPECFEM3D, SPECFEM2D, SPECFEM1D, SEISMIC_CPML.
Geodynamo: MAG
Long-Term Crustal Dynamics: Gale
Gale
A gale is a very strong wind. There are conflicting definitions of how strong a wind must be to be considered a gale. The U.S. government's National Weather Service defines a gale as 34–47 knots of sustained surface winds. Forecasters typically issue gale warnings when winds of this strength are...

, Plasti, and SNAC
Mantle Convection: CitcomCU, CitcomS and Ellipsis3d, based on Citcom
Citcom
CitCom is a finite element code designed to solve thermal convection problems relevant to earth's mantle released under the GNU General Public License...

, and ConMan, and HC
Short-Term Crustal Dynamics: PyLith and LithoMop

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