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 20091026 Monday October 26, 2009

Sun Benchmarks Reverse Time Migration

Just in time for SEG comes news of Sun's outstanding performance on Reverse Time Migration:

"A Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with 12 Sun Blade X6275 server modules were clustered together with QDR InfiniBand and using a Lustre File System with QDR InfiniBand to show performance improvements over an NFS file system for reading in Velocity, Epsilon, and Delta Slices and imaging 800 samples of various various grid sizes using the Reverse Time Migration. Full Story

and

"A prominent Seismic Processing algorithm, Reverse Time Migration with Optimal Checkpointing, in SMP "THREADS" Mode, was testing using a Sun Fire X4270 server configured with four high performance 15K SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and a Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array. This benchmark compares I/O devices for checkpointing wave state information while processing a production seismic migration. Full Story

Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( October 26, 2009 03:03 PM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
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