GPU in seismic processing, 'don't try this at home'

摘要

Speaking at the Las Vegas SEG meet late last year, Headwave's Steve Briggs provided an inside track on the company's work on using graphics processing units (GPU) in seismic data analysis. Headwave's focus is prestack volume visualization and analysis. Prestack visual quality control mandates quick look access to data sets of terabyte size. Headwave's technology uses wavelet data compression to enable this to be performed on a notebook PC.