High parallel efficiency is an important goal in high performance computing (HPC) environments. The seismic simulation software SeisSol and the PDE solver engine ExaHyPE both try to achieve this goal. Measuring and comparing the parallel efficiency is important to give a better insight on how far the goal is reached. In this thesis, two seimsic scenarios were simulated and the parallel performance was measured. The talk will present SeisSol and ExaHyPE and will present the results of the performance measured.

Keywords: High Performance Computing, Seismic Simulations, Parallelisation