*Result*: A HIERARCHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PARALLEL SEISMIC APPLICATIONS.
*Further Information*
*Organizations are increasingly contending with a parallel and distributed software crisis. In particular, the growing heterogeneity of hardware architectures and diversity of communication platforms make it difficult to build parallel and distributed applications from scratch that are correct, portable, efficient and inexpensive. Object-oriented (OO) application frameworks are considered promising technologies for improving software productivity and increasing the reusability, extensibility and portability of software. Currently, there are some mature general purpose frameworks as well as domain-specific application frameworks. In order to extend the application scope of the framework techniques, some attention is paid to the parallel framework. One of the representative works is parallel OO methods and applications (POOMA) for particle in cell simulations. Different from POOMA, the author took oil and gas exploration as the application domain and implemented a hierarchical parallel application framework.*