Evaluation of 3D RTM on HPC platforms
Francisco Ortigosa, Mauricio Araya‐Polo, F. Rubio, Mauricio Hanzich, R. de la Cruz, José María · 2008
Reverse Time Migration (RTM) has become the latest chapter in seismic imaging for geologically complex subsurface areas. In particular has proven to be very useful for the subsaly oil plays of the US Gulf of Mexico. However, RTM cannot be applied extensively due to the extreme computational demand. The recent availability of multi-core processors, homogeneous and heterogeneous, may provide the required compute power. In this paper, we benchmark an effective RTM algorithm on several HPC platforms to assess viability of hardware.