Title
FPGA-based architecture to speed-up scientific computation in seismic applications
Abstract
Hardware accelerators like GPGPUs and FPGAs have been used as an alternative to conventional CPU architectures in scientific computing applications and have shown considerable speed-ups on them. In this context, this work presents an FPGA-based solution that explores efficiently the data reuse and spatial and time domain parallelism for the first computational stage of the reverse time migration (RTM) algorithm, the seismic modelling. We also implemented the same algorithm for some CPUs and GPGPU architectures and our results showed that an FPGA-based approach can be a feasible solution to improve performance. Experimental results showed similar performance when compared to the GPGPU and up to 28.91 times speed-up when compared to CPUs. In terms of energy efficiency, the FPGA is almost 23 times and 1.75 times more efficient than the CPU and GPGPU, respectively. We also discuss some other features and possible optimisations that can be included in the proposed architecture that can make this performance even better.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1504/IJHPSA.2012.050985
IJHPSA
Keywords
Field
DocType
similar performance,seismic application,fpga-based approach,computational stage,conventional cpu architecture,reverse time migration,considerable speed-up,fpga-based architecture,time domain parallelism,feasible solution,gpgpu architecture,scientific computation,fpga-based solution,hpc,gpgpu,fpga
Time domain,Seismic migration,Central processing unit,Architecture,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Computational science,General-purpose computing on graphics processing units,Speedup
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
4
2
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
7
8