Parallel and distributed seismic wave field modeling with combined Linux clusters and graphics processing units
Dept. of Geoinformatics & Appl. Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Krakow, Poland
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009, IGARSS 2009
@conference{danek2009parallel,
title={Parallel and distributed seismic wave field modeling with combined Linux clusters and graphics processing units},
author={Danek, T.},
booktitle={Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009 IEEE International, IGARSS 2009},
volume={4},
pages={IV–208},
organization={IEEE}
}
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is a fast developing method of high performance computing (HPC). In some cases even a low-end video card can be several to dozens times faster than a modem CPU core. Seismic wave filed modeling is one of the problems of this kind. But in some modern methods of seismic exploration or seismology it is possible that hundreds of thousands of forward modelings are needed for final solution of the computational problem. Using mulit-GPU and hybrid CPU-GPU computations in distributed computer environments seems to be a natural next step in development of these method of HPC.
April 6, 2011 by hgpu
