CUDA IN ACTION

CUDA + New Energy

Subsurface geological model showing exploration targets below the salt body

The cost of drilling of deep oil exploration wells can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. In many cases, there is only one chance to drill a successful well. SeismicCity develops and implements depth imaging technology used for interpretation of seismic data that leads to the selection of new drilling locations.

To improve the quality and effectiveness of their imaging, SeismicCity turned to CUDA™ and NVIDIA® Tesla™ 8-series GPUs, achieving about a 14X performance increase over a previous CPU-based configuration. With CUDA, SeismicCity is able to offer its clients commercial use of the most advanced depth imaging algorithms and dramatically improve the chances of successful drilling.

For more information, please visit: www.seismiccity.com.

Seismic image constructed by application of depth imaging technology