The use of the CAPE Environment in the simulation of rock fracturing

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Abstract
The Cellular Automaton Programming Environment (CAPE) was developed as a programming paradigm specific tool for simulation of physical systems by cellular automata (CAs) on the Meiko Computing Surface. CAPE is structured in a way that allows application‐specific elements to be replaced whilst retaining the core of the tool.One of the applications areas where CAPE has been used is in the initial stages of a project which is studying the complex non‐linear processes of fracture evolution and fluid flow in geological materials. We describe the programming abstraction provided by CAPE, primarily concentrating on the approach that is taken to reducing the application programmer's initial exposure to issues in parallel computing. We give a brief description of the geological processes that have been simulated, and consider the problems that are associated with this application of CAPE.