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SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012

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Seismic Imaging on Blue Gene/Q

SESSION: Research Poster Reception

EVENT TYPE: Posters and Electronic Posters

TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler

AUTHOR(S):Ligang Lu, James Sexton, Michael Perrone, Karen Magerlein, Robert Walkup

ROOM:East Entrance

ABSTRACT:
Blue Gene/Q (BG/Q) is an early representative of increasing scale and thread count that will characterize future HPC systems. This work helps to address two questions important to future HPC system development: how HPC systems with high levels of scale and thread count will perform in applications; and how systems with many degrees of freedom in choosing the number of nodes, cores, and threads can be calibrated to achieve optimal performance. Our investigation of Reverse Time Migration (RTM) seismic imaging on BG/Q helps to answer such questions and provides an example of how HPC systems like BG/Q can accelerate applications to unprecedented levels of performance. Our analyses of various levels and aspects of optimization also provide valuable experience and insights into how BG/Qs architecture and hardware features can be utilized to facilitate the advance of seismic imaging technologies. Our BG/Q RTM solution achieved a 14.93x speedup over the BG/P implementation.

Chair/Author Details:

Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich

Ligang Lu - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

James Sexton - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Michael Perrone - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Karen Magerlein - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Robert Walkup - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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Seismic Imaging on Blue Gene/Q

SESSION: Research Poster Reception

EVENT TYPE:

TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM

SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler

AUTHOR(S):Ligang Lu, James Sexton, Michael Perrone, Karen Magerlein, Robert Walkup

ROOM:East Entrance

ABSTRACT:
Blue Gene/Q (BG/Q) is an early representative of increasing scale and thread count that will characterize future HPC systems. This work helps to address two questions important to future HPC system development: how HPC systems with high levels of scale and thread count will perform in applications; and how systems with many degrees of freedom in choosing the number of nodes, cores, and threads can be calibrated to achieve optimal performance. Our investigation of Reverse Time Migration (RTM) seismic imaging on BG/Q helps to answer such questions and provides an example of how HPC systems like BG/Q can accelerate applications to unprecedented levels of performance. Our analyses of various levels and aspects of optimization also provide valuable experience and insights into how BG/Qs architecture and hardware features can be utilized to facilitate the advance of seismic imaging technologies. Our BG/Q RTM solution achieved a 14.93x speedup over the BG/P implementation.

Chair/Author Details:

Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich

Ligang Lu - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

James Sexton - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Michael Perrone - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Karen Magerlein - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Robert Walkup - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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