SEG Salt, Phase A1 - 3D

SEG Salt Model SEG Salt Model Phase A1


 
  138 shots at:
1.6 minutes / shot (single GT200) 
4.4 minutes / shot (8 cores, Xeon X5560, 2.8GHz

Document Revision:  V3.00 
Last Updated: 
June 8, 2010
RTM Orders: 
2nd Time, 8th Space 
SW Release Used: 
“Goodsir” 
SW Release Date: 
April 7, 2010 
Benchmark Status:  
Public, Non-Confidential 

 

RTM Model Definition

Problem Definition Parameters    
Migration area (RTM model) 67.6 square km  
X, Y lengths (velocity model) 13.52 km  
Model depth 3.7 km  
Total number of shots 138 shots  
Number of receivers, per shot 61-390 receivers/shot  
       
RTM Model Width-X 5,000 m  
RTM Model Width-Y 5,000 m  
RTM Model Width-Z 3,700 m  
       
Trace sampling interval 8.0 milliseconds  
Trace length 5.0 seconds  
Number of samples 625 samples  
       
Migration frequency 25.0 Hz  
Maximum velocity 4,482 m/s  
Minimum velocity (water) 1,500 m/s  
Maximum wavelength 179 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 8 th  
Grid points per wavelength 2.85 points/lambda [dispersion-free for minimum wavelength]
Maximum allowable cell size (for dispersion) 21.1 m [dispersion-free for minimum wavelength]
Working cell size 21.1 m [cell size actually used in the migration]
       
dt 1.6 miliseconds  
Simulation timesteps 3,125 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 15    
Number of sponge boundary layers, each y-axis 15    
Number of sponge boundary layers, Zmin 15    
Number of sponge boundary layers, Zmax 15    
Extra cells at EACH boundary due to FD stencil 4   [2 cells for 4th-order-in-space, 4 cells for 8th-order-in-space]
       
Size of RTM domain 10.2 million cells  
Size of RTM domain, including boundaries 16.6 million cells  
Memory high watermark, including boundaries 380.3 Mbytes [given num. volumes stored, single precision]
       
Calculations      
"Normal" cells, X 240    
"Normal" cells, Y 240    
"Normal" cells, Z 177    
Total "normal" cell count 10,195,200    
Cells including boundaries, X 278    
Cells including boundaries, Y 278    
Cells including boundaries, Z 215    
Total Cell Count, including boundaries 16,616,060    
Memory occupation, including boundaries 398,785,440 bytes  

 

GPU Performance

RTM Parameters (carry over)      
Size of RTM domain, including boundaries 16.6 million cells  
Memory high water mark, including boundaries 380.3 Mbytes  
Total number of shots 138 shots  
       
Single GPU specifications      
GPU memory (GB) 3.8 GB [next gen h/w from NVIDIA, GT200 = 4GB with 0.9 Safety Factor]
       
Single GPU Configuration      
Total time to migrate single shot 96.5 seconds [Single NVIDIA GT200]
Time to migrate all shots 3.7 hours [Assumes none of the shots are migrated on parallel equipment]
       
Forward Propagation (and Illumination Calculation)      
Total time for forward pass 38.1119 seconds  
Time per iteration (forward) 0.0122 seconds [Acceleware recommends that this is the best metric to use for performance comparisons]
Throughput (NOT including boundary cells) 836 Mcells/s [Boundary cells are included in the time but not in the number of cells updated]
Throughput (INCLUDING boundary cells) 1,362 Mcells/s  
       
Reverse Propagation (inc. Correlation)      
Total time, for reverse pass 58.4115 seconds  
Time per iteration (reverse) 0.0187 seconds  [Acceleware recommends that this is the best metric to use for performance comparisons]
Throughput (NOT Including Boundary Cells) 545 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) 889 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 GPUs per shot Total Time, per Shot Forward
(seconds)
Reverse
(seconds)
SEG Salt, A1 - 3D 2nd 8th 251 251 185 10.2 16.6 380.3 Mbytes 1 1.6 minutes 0.0122 0.0187 seconds
SEG Salt, A2 - 3D 2nd 8th 251 251 185 10.2 16.6 380.3 Mbytes 1 1.6 minutes 0.0122 0.0187 seconds
Typical Gulf of Mexico 2nd 8th 691 952 568 253.2 305.3 7.3 Gbytes 2 26 minutes 0.1016 0.1543 seconds

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