Sedach: Seismic Data Challenge
Project Topic
Enhanced seismic data quality for oil exploration
Project Description
The processing and visualization algorithms and their implementations for seismic data face the problem that the data size is huge (TBytes), the problem is ill-posed and the structure of the content of the data is very complex. The main goal in this project is to combine state of the art visualization technologies, deep knowledge of HPC systems and architecture with newly developed seismic migration algorithms to achieve a new level of interactivity for the quality control (QC) of seismic data and to develop new migration algorithms that improve computational speed and data quality executing distributed multicore HPC systems.
Project Members
Project Chair
Participating Research Groups
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Sect. High Performance Computing
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Sect. Streams and Complex Structures
Scientific Personnel
- Dr. Norman Ettrich
- Dr. Dirk Merten
- Dr. Carsten Lojewski
- Nikolai Ivlev
- Matthias Gross
External Cooperation
Project Events and Achievements
Project Time Frame
01.10.2006 with a preliminary duration until the end of 2007
Project Milestones
Successful work has been done in all relevant fields of the project. The software developed has been shown on international oil&gas conferences (EAGE, SEG). The following specific results have been achieved:
- development of a new multicore volume rendering algorithm that is optimized for seismic data
- development of a new virtual machine that supports global shared memory on distributed systems (basis for higher performance of rendering and migration algorithms)
- development and implementation of a new angle migration algorithm
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