SEGJ Technical Conference


Optimization of Multiplets Identifier on GPU


Abstract
The recent drastic performance improvement of graphics processing units, GPUs and the introduction of CUDA, Compute Unified Device Architecture enable the use of GPUs for general purpose computing. We successfully optimized a Real-time Multiplet Identifier, RTMI algorithm using a GPU. The core algorithm of RTMI ran 230 times faster than on an Intel Core2 Duo 2.26GHz CPU, which improved the total performance of RTMI 10 times. GPU computing is a new but promising direction for high performance computing for geophysical exploration.