tutorial from Nvidia GTC

October 16, 2009

My talk is attached in *pdf. Overall the conference felt like a rock’n'roll show, my first non-academic meeting of this nature. Thoroughly enjoyable although a little difficult to tell what people are doing since it’s mostly proprietary work. The announcement of fermi was certainly exciting; ~8x times the double prec performance, ECC and many more cores/memory…

Talk outline:

  • Company Background

  • CUDA accelerates Geophysics:
    • Data Processing w/ Linear Algebra

    • Sparse Matrices
    • Seismic Imaging:Kirchhoff Time Migration
      • Frequency Filtering

      • Traveltime/Weight Calculations
      • GPU Migration
  • Summary

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