Research & Development
GPU Computing in ffA Software
ffA is committed to delivering high performance IPA capabilities through its desktop software
applications, SVI Pro and SEA 3D Pro.
Such capabilities will enable users to process more data, more rapidly, with increased interactivity,
confidence and control throughout the analysis process.
ffA’s industry leading volume attribute analysis and object delineation workflows are underpinned by a wide range of
sophisticated IPA algorithms that, although easy to use, are compute intensive.
The advent of low power, massively parallel, programmable
NVIDIA
CUDA enabled Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) is bringing HPC capabilities to the seismic interpretation
workstation.
ffA has entered into a partnership with NVIDIA
to help accelerate utilisation and deployment of this technology in its applications to deliver a step
improvement in the performance of its software on desktop systems.
The performance improvements provided by GPU computation will dramatically accelerate 3D seismic analysis workflows,
leading to step gains in productivity.
Full utilisation of the capabilities of GPUs allows closer integration of data,
computation and visualisation subsystems within ffA software.
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CUDA enabled versions of ffA’s 3D seismic analysis algorithms have demonstrated that more than an order of magnitude increase in compute performance can be achieved by utilising the GPU. |
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This provides a unique arena in which software
tools can link user interaction and interactivity with sophisticated computational processes that previously
were treated as black boxes. |
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The performance improvement made by computing on CUDA enabled GPUs makes interactive IPA based 3D seismic analysis possible on the technical laptops and interpretation workstations typically used to run ffA software today. |
Last Modified: 6th May 2009