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Seismic Exploration
The oil and gas industry is using ever more computationally intensive seismic algorithms such as Kirchhoff Time and Depth Migration (KTM, and KDM), Wave Equation Migration (WEM), Spectral Inversion, and Reverse Time Migration (RTM) in the search for energy reserves. These applications are seeing significant acceleration using GPUs. Tesla GPUs have been deployed into production to accelerate seismic processing at various oil majors like Schlumberger, Chevron, TOTAL, Petrobras, Repsol, etc.
Key ISV and Applications using GPUs for Seismic Processing
| ISV/Application | GPU accelerated features | Expected Speed up |
| Acceleware – Paradigm RTM | Seismic Imaging | 4-20x |
| Paradigm Echos, SKUA, VoxelGeo | Seismic Imaging, Interpretation, Reservoir Modeling | |
| Tsunami A2011 | Seismic Imaging | |
| PanoramaTech: Marvel | Seismic Modeling, Imaging, Inversion | |
| GeoMage Multifocusing | Seismic Imaging | |
| Seismic City RTM | Seismic Imaging | |
| GeoStar RTM | Seismic Imaging |
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Technical Reports on Seismic Processing with GPUs
- “GPU rendering for Volume visualization” by Philip Neri, Paradigm Geophysical, published in OffShore Magazine, August 2011
- “GPUs prove their worth in seismic interpretation” by Paradigm Geophysical, published in E&P, May 2011
- “How gaming has aided GPU rendering for volume visualization” by Paradigm Geophysical, published Offshore Engineer February, 2011
- Industrial Seismic Imaging on GPUs” by Scott Morton, HESS Corporation
- “Using the Full Seismic Wavefield” by Paradigm Geophysical, EAGE 2011
- Seismic imaging on novel computer architectures, by Jairo Panetta, Paulo Souza, Carlos Cunha, André Romanelli, Fernando Roxo, Ivan Pedrosa, Silvio Sinedino, Luiz Monnerat, Leandro Carneiro, Carlos Albrecht, TECNOLOGIA GEOFÍSICA, PETROBRAS, Brazil
- Reverse Time Migration with GMAC, by Repsol and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Imaging Earth’s Subsurface using CUDA, by Bernard Deschizeaux , Jean-Yves Blanc, CGGVeritas
- Fast Seismic Modeling and Reverse Time Migration on a GPU Cluster (HPCS '09 Best Paper Award)
- Preparing seismic codes for GPUs and other many-core architectures by P. Micikevicius
Other Relevant Software Using CUDA
- Acceleware: Kirchoff and Reverse Time Migration
- OpenGeoSolutions: Spectral decomposition and inversion
- Mercury Computer systems: 3D data visualization
- ffA: 3D Seismic processing software
- Headwave: Prestack data processing
- GIS: Manifold
- MATLAB GPU Computing: MathWorks
- MATLAB plugin: Accelereyes