Who should use Jest?
We expect our first users to be geophysicists who know Java or are willing to learn it. Ideally the user’s works on small to medium sized research problems. In the near future, I believe large-sized research will become feasible as Java’s overall performance improves and we built efficient implementations of Jest components (e.g. an out-of-core Rsf with methods that call native Fortran subroutines). Ideally applied mathematicians would join the development effort and implement sophisticated solvers. Possibly these mathematicians would collaborate directly with a geophysicist. We hope that programmer’s and researcher in scientific and computational fields besides geophysics would take advantage of the package by extending it to their specific vector and operator implementations. We can envision, a Matlab interface to Jest (we believe Jest can do anything Matlab can do) or a mechanism in which a programmer supplies an operator’s image function in form of an operator and otherwise assembl
