ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS WEI ZHANG is a scientific programmer and has been working in the high-performance computing area for 15 years.He has developed or co-developed many scientific software packages for molecu- lar simulation,computer-aided drug design,EM structure reconstruction,and seismic depth imag- ing.He is now focusing his effort on improving the performance of seismic data processing using new technologies such as CUDA. CHAO ZHAO joined Chevron in 2008 and currently serves as Geophysical Application Software Development Specialist.In this role,Chao is responsible for designing and developing software products for geoscientists.Prior to joining Chevron,Chao was a software developer for Knowledge Systems Inc.and Seismic Micro Technology Inc.With more than 13 years of software developing experience in the exploration and production industry,Chao has gained rich knowledge in the fields of geology and geophysics.Having a broad education in science,Chao likes to see CUDA program- ming used widely in scientific research and enjoys contributing to it as much as he can.He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Peking University and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Rhode Island. www.it-ebooks.infoffi rs.indd 08/07/2014 Page vi ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS WEI ZHANG is a scientifi c programmer and has been working in the high-performance computing area for 15 years. He has developed or co-developed many scientifi c software packages for molecu￾lar simulation, computer-aided drug design, EM structure reconstruction, and seismic depth imag￾ing. He is now focusing his effort on improving the performance of seismic data processing using new technologies such as CUDA. CHAO ZHAO joined Chevron in 2008 and currently serves as Geophysical Application Software Development Specialist. In this role, Chao is responsible for designing and developing software products for geoscientists. Prior to joining Chevron, Chao was a software developer for Knowledge Systems Inc. and Seismic Micro Technology Inc. With more than 13 years of software developing experience in the exploration and production industry, Chao has gained rich knowledge in the fi elds of geology and geophysics. Having a broad education in science, Chao likes to see CUDA program￾ming used widely in scientifi c research and enjoys contributing to it as much as he can. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Peking University and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Rhode Island. www.it-ebooks.info