Author responses to the Interactive discussion on ”An explicit GPU-based material point method solver for elastoplastic problems (ep2-3De v1.0)” in the Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) Journal

Reply # 1 Thank you for raising that point. We recognize that the paper can be long for the audience. However, we also think it is the bare minimum to have a grasp over the material point method. We strongly believe this avoids the reading of numerous references and facilitate the overall understanding of the method to a broader audience. We already attempted to shorten the section 2 by putting in Appendix a detailed description of the shape functions used in GIMPM.