A Parallel Algorithm of Kirchhoff Pre-stack Depth Migration Based on GPU

摘要

Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migration (KPSDM) algorithm, as one of the most widely used migration algorithms, plays an important part in getting the real image of the earth. However, this program takes considerable time due to its high computational cost; hence the working efficiency of the oil industry is affected. The general purpose Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) developed by NVIDIA have provided a new solution to this problem. In this study, we have proposed a parallel algorithm of the Kirchhoff pre-stack depth migration and an optimization strategy based on the CUDA technology. Our experiments indicate that for large data computations, the accelerated algorithm achieves a speedup of 8～15 times compared with NVIDIA GPU.