SEG Salt A2

SEG Salt, Phase A2 - 3D  
(2nd order time, 4th order space)

SEG Salt Model

 
  138 shots at:
116.7 seconds / shot (single GT200) 
FUTURE seconds / shot (x CPU cores, TBD GHz)

Document Revision:  V1.00 
Last Updated: 
December 11, 2008 
RTM Orders: 
2nd Time, 4th Space 
SW Release Used: 
“Columbia” 
SW Release Date: 
November 7, 2008 
Benchmark Status:  
Public, Non-Confidential 

 

RTM Model Definition

Problem Definition Parameters    
Migration (survey) area (RTM model) 13.52 square km  
X, Y lengths (velocity model) 13.52 km  
Survey depth 3.7 km  
Total number of shots 138 shots  
Number of receivers, per shot 144-390 receivers/shot  
       
Minimum shot offset 1,520.0 m  
Maximum shot offset 12,480.0 m  
Shot offset Y 5,060.0 m  
RTM model widh Y 1,000.0 m  
       
Trace sampling interval 8.0 milliseconds  
Trace length 5.0 seconds  
Number of samples 625 samples  
       
Migration frequency 25.0 Hz  
Maximum velocity 5,500 m/s  
Minimum velocity (water) 1,500 m/s  
Maximum wavelength 220 m [fn for migration freq and max. velocity]
Minimum wavelength 60 m [fn for migration freq and min. velocity]
       
Temporal order 2 nd  
Spatial order 4 th  
Grid points per wavelength 6.0 points/lambda [dispersion-free for minimum wavelength]
Maximum allowable cell size (for dispersion) 10.0 m [dispersion-free for minimum wavelength]
Working cell size 20 m [cell size actually used in the migration]
       
dt 2.0 miliseconds  
Simulation timesteps 2,500 timesteps  
       
RTM Model Assumptions Parameters    
Maximum volumes in memory 6   [6, +1 for density, +6 for (VTI) anisotrophy]
       
RTM Boundaries      
Number of sponge boundary layers, each x-axis 30    
Number of sponge boundary layers, each y-axis 30    
Number of sponge boundary layers, Zmin 30    
Number of sponge boundary layers, Zmax 30    
Extra cells at EACH boundary due to FD stencil 2   [2 cells for 4th-order-in-space, 4 cells for 8th-order-in-space]
       
Size of RTM domain 6.3 million cells  
Size of RTM domain, including boundaries 21.0 million cells  
Memory high watermark, including boundaries 480.8 Mbytes [given num. volumes stored, single precision]
       
Calculations      
"Normal" cells, X 676    
"Normal" cells, Y 50    
"Normal" cells, Z 185    
Total "normal" cell count 6,253,000    
Cells including boundaries, X 740    
Cells including boundaries, Y 114    
Cells including boundaries, Z 249    
Total Cell Count, including boundaries 21,005,640    
Memory occupation, including boundaries 504,135,360 bytes  
Additional fields stored 29,505,280    
Memory occupation, additional storage required (MB) 112.55  Mbytes  

 

GPU Performance

RTM Parameters (carry over)      
Size of RTM domain, including boundaries 21.0 million cells  
Memory high water mark, including boundaries 480.8 Mbytes  
Total number of shots 138 shots  
       
Single GPU specifications      
GPU memory (GB) 3.6 GB [next gen h/w from NVIDIA, GT200 = 4GB with 0.9 Safety Factor]
       
"Accelerated Node" definition      
CPU Server hosts per "Tesla" (GPU Server)  2   NOT USED
Number of GPU servers 1   NOT USED
Individual GPU's per GPU server 4   NOT USED
       
Single GPU Configuration      
Total time to migrate single shot 116.7 seconds [Single NVIDIA GT200]
Time to migrate all shots 4.5 hours [Assumes none of the shots are migrated on parallel equipment]
       
Forward Propagation (and Illumination Calculation)      
Total time for forward pass 43.8280 seconds  
Time per iteration (forward) 0.0175312 seconds [Acceleware recommends that this is the best metric to use for performance comparisons]
Throughput (NOT including boundary cells) 357 Mcells/s [Boundary cells are included in the time but not in the number of cells updated]
Throughput (INCLUDING boundary cells) 1,198 Mcells/s  
       
Reverse Propagation (inc. Correlation)      
Total time, for reverse pass 72.8492 seconds  
Time per iteration (reverse) 0.02913968 seconds  [Acceleware recommends that this is the best metric to use for performance comparisons]
Throughput (NOT Including Boundary Cells) 215 Mcells/s [NB Two identically sized RTM domains exist in memory, at the same time, during this stage of the migration. Cells for only one of the domains are counted]
Throughput (INCLUDING Boundary Cells) 721 Mcells/s  

 

SEG Velocity model Section along x=7600(m) Slice Migrated Section along x=7600(m) Slice

 

 

Summary of Benchmark Results

      Size of Domain   Performance
            "Normal" Cells Including Boundaries       Time per iteration
  Temporal Order Spacial Order X Y Z (Mcells) (Mcells) Memory High Water Mark Number of GPU's per shot Total Time, per Shot Forward
(seconds)
Reverse
(seconds)
 BP Dataset 2D 2nd 8th 16,850 - 2,975  50.1 51.5 1.15 Gbytes 1 Under Construction
 Foothills Dataset - 2D 2nd 8th 6,250 - 2,500  15.6 16.2 371.4 Mbytes 1 35.8 seconds 0.0013035 0.0022724
Marmousi 2D 2nd 8th 2,300 - 750 1.73 1.94 44.3 Mbytes 1 39.0 seconds 0.0014268 0.0024758
SEG Salt, A1 - 3D 2nd 4th 100 676 185 12.5 30.2 691.6 Mbytes 1 144.8 seconds 0.0222250 0.0357102
SEG Salt, A2 - 3D 2nd 4th 676 50 185 6.3 21.0 480.8 Mbytes 1 116.7 seconds 0.0175312 0.0291397
 SEG Salt, B1 - 3D     Under Construction   Under Construction

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