Title
Asynchronous Task-Based Execution of the Reverse Time Migration for the Oil and Gas Industry
Abstract
We propose a new framework for deploying Reverse Time Migration (RTM) simulations on distributed-memory systems equipped with multiple GPUs. Our software, TB-RTM, infrastructure engine relies on the StarPU dynamic runtime system to orchestrate the asynchronous scheduling of RTM computational tasks on the underlying resources. Besides dealing with the challenging hardware heterogeneity, TB-RTM supports tasks with different workload characteristics, which stress disparate components of the hardware system. RTM is challenging in that it operates intensively at both ends of the memory hierarchy, with compute kernels running at the highest level of the memory system, possibly in GPU main memory, while I/O kernels are saving solution data to fast storage. We consider how to span the wide performance gap between the two extreme ends of the memory system, i.e., GPU memory and fast storage, on which large-scale RTM simulations routinely execute. To maximize hardware occupancy while maintaining high memory bandwidth throughout the memory subsystem, our framework presents the new-of-core (OOC) feature from StarPU to prefetch data solutions in and out not only from/to the GPU/CPU main memory but also from/to the fast storage system. The OOC technique may trigger opportunities for overlapping expensive data movement with computations. TB-RTM framework addresses this challenging problem of heterogeneity with a systematic approach that is oblivious to the targeted hardware architectures. Our resulting RTM framework can effectively be deployed on massively parallel GPU-based systems, while delivering performance scalability up to 500 GPUs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CLUSTER.2019.8891054
2019 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reverse Time Migration,Task-Based Programming Model,Out-Of-Core Algorithms,Asynchronous Executions,Overlapping I/O with Computation,STARPU OOC
Asynchronous communication,Memory hierarchy,Computer data storage,Massively parallel,Computer science,High memory,Parallel computing,Instruction prefetch,Scalability,Runtime system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1552-5244
978-1-7281-4735-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amani AlOnazi100.34
Hatem Ltaief257047.47
David E. Keyes33712.38
I. Said400.34
Samuel Thibault571635.58