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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just started using specfem3d v1.4.3 and have a few basic questions. Could anyone in this email list offer some help? Thank you in advance. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1). In the manual page 6, it says "MODEL must be one of the following: SoCal and Harvard_LA". Can I provide my own models, and how to create my own models?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2). I plan to use this program for an exploration seismology problem, which involves 1000~3000 sources. In the specfem3d.f90 code, line 528, I notice that an error message will be issued if NSOURCES (number of sources?) is larger than 1000. Will this limit my application, in other words, can specfem3d allows more than 1000 shots?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3). I initially compiled specfem3d on a single PC (compiled --without-mpi, FC=Fortran) and followed the manual till page 19, where I cannot use UTILS/slice_number.pl (actually UTILS/Vistualization/slice_number.pl) to generate a slices_file. I have matlab installed. The machine is complaining no sph2utm command. Where and what is the sph2utm command? Is this the only way to load/view the binary kernel output files in matlab or paraview?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any suggestions are appreciated!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Junwei</FONT>
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