2016 SEG High Performance Computing Workshop

Astonishing advancements in high performance computing has made running large-scale, computationally-intensive applications a daily practice in the oil and gas industry. Those include anisotropic depth imaging, especially anisotropic reverse-time migration, multi-parameter model building, full waveform inversion, and reservoir simulation, etc. In addition, high performance computing is also critical for the success of interactive applications in seismic data visualization, processing, and computational interpretation of large volumes. As the exploration targets grow increasingly challenging and the volume of seismic data become ever larger, the impact of HPC to the success of the petroleum industry grows in importance. This workshop will foster knowledge sharing in the implementations and applications of geophysical algorithms on high performance computing systems. Topics of presentations will also include recent advances and future trends in HPC, including its challenges and its impact on the Oil and Gas Industry; tools for integrated data analysis, visualization, simulation, and computing environments that provide end-to-end solutions are also encouraged to be shared.