Solutions - Seismic Solutions
The seismic data processing market is faced with increasing resolution demands, faster cycles, larger datasets and greater complexity to meet the needs of customers. The upward pressure on global demand for oil, coupled with declining conventional reserves has exploration companies turning to increasingly complex data processing to maximize oil recovery and minimize exploration risk.
Acceleware is leading the market in providing acceleration solutions for seismic data processing and reservoir simulation. By combining our core knowledge in parallelization and optimization of complex algorithms with an in-house team of seismic industry experts, Acceleware provides software solutions for seismic data processors which access the massively parallel capabilities of compute GPUs. The Acceleware seismic processing solutions provide multi-fold performance increases to reduce lengthy processing times and deliver faster business decisions for the seismic industry. By harnessing the parallel processing power of GPU accelerators to dramatically increase the computation power of data centers, seismic jobs are processed faster and with a reduced total cost of IT ownership.
Acceleware offers accelerated products for both seismic migration and forward modeling. Our seismic libraries have been specifically tuned to increase processing speed with the use of NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs.
Seismic Migration
Seismic migration is a data processing technique for transforming data gathered by seismic reflection surveys into an image of the Earth's structure. Historically, seismic survey data were simply stacked together, reducing noise levels and producing a "stacked section". However, the true locations of reflections are generally misplaced in simple stacked sections. As computing power has increased over the years, different migration processes have been developed for moving (or "migrating") imaged structures closer to their true locations. The more complex the geology, the more complex and expensive the migration process needs to be.
Two such seismic migration techniques are Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Time Migration (KPSTM) and Reverse Time Migration (RTM). Acceleware has developed products for accelerating both KPSTM and RTM.
Reverse Time Migration (RTM)
Reverse Time Migration (RTM) is the current state-of-the-art in seismic migration. The strength of RTM stems from the fact that it fully respects the two-way acoustic wave equation, thus improving imaging in areas where complex geology violates the assumptions made in Kirchhoff or one-way wave equation migrations.
RTM provides a high-fidelity image of the most complex geological structures, but its widespread use has been severely hindered by the enormous computing resources required to process the data. This computational bottleneck is being addressed by Acceleware with a patent pending solution (AxRTM), currently in Beta development. For more information about our RTM Beta program, please contact sales@acceleware.com
 Left Image: Marmousi Velocity Model
Right Image: Migrated Image from AxRTM
View our AxRTM WebBrochure (pdf)
View our AxRTM Performance Results (html)
Detailed Result Brochures (html):
SEG Salt Model A1 2D Performance Results Brochure
SEG Salt Model A2 2D Performance Results Brochure
Marmousi 2D Performance Results Brochure
Foothills 94 Performance Results Brochure
Kirchhoff Time Migration (KTM)
Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Time Migration is the most popular migration method in the seismic data processing industry because of its simplicity, efficiency, and feasibility. However processing time can consume weeks or months of compute time. Acceleware's AxKTM library has been specifically designed to maximize the speed of KPSTM, without introducing mathematical approximations.
Seismic Modeling
In addition to migration software, Acceleware has also developed an accelerated seismic modeling product, AxWaveSim. Modeling is used for a variety of purposes in the seismic industry, including survey design and interpretation of seismic data. Acceleware`s cluster solution optimizes seismic survey design and enables Quality Assurance of migration outputs.
The video below is a demo simulating the propagation of acoustic waves through the SEG/EAGE Salt Dome Model. The different colors represent different geological formations, in which waves will travel with different velocities. Acoustic waves can be seen (in grey) emanating out from the center of the model, being reflected and refracted at velocity discontinuities.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Acceleware’s solutions use 70% less power.
Acceleware is dedicated to providing energy efficient product solutions through our Eco-Friendly AXE Certified program. We continue to generate software solutions that enable massive processing power with a smaller environmental footprint.
How do we generate these great savings? Acceleware software allows seismic data processing jobs to be run on GPUs. With GPU accelerators installed within your clusters, you can process 5 to 10 times more data within the same size and power footprint. Easily extend the useful life of your data center space by increasing capacity without increasing footprint when Acceleware and GPU technology is implemented.
Give yourself the potential savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars for infrastructure upgrades such as additional power and cooling with Acceleware. You will appreciate lower rental costs for floor space, lower power costs, with an increase of processing capability.
With an estimated savings of over $3,500 per year per accelerated server or tens of thousands per year for large installations, Acceleware has the right solution for you and your business needs.
How Can Acceleware's Solutions Help?
Acceleware provides access to the massively parallel, multithreaded compute resources of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). GPUs can dramatically accelerate computations that are inherently parallel and data intensive. Acceleware developers optimize parallelization through vectorization of code and detailed knowledge of the processing hardware.
If your business involves processing seismic data and would like further information on how Acceleware solutions can assist you please contact sales@acceleware.com.
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