Category: Energy (Oil & Gas)

AWS re:Invent 2025 returns to Las Vegas, Nevada on December 1, uniting AWS builders, customers, partners, and IT professionals from across the globe. This year’s event offers you exclusive access to compelling customer stories and insights from AWS leadership as they tackle today’s most critical challenges in high-performance computing, from accelerating scientific discovery to optimizing […]

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Seismic imaging is the process of positioning the Earth’s subsurface reflectors. It transforms the seismic data recorded in time at the Earth’s surface to an image of the Earth’s subsurface. This is done by back-propagating data from time to space in a given velocity model. Kirchhoff depth migration is a well-known technique used in geophysics for seismic imaging. Kirchhoff time and depth migration produce an image with higher resolution and generate an image of the subsurface for a subset class of the data, providing valuable information about the petrophysical properties of the rocks and helps to determine how accurate the velocity model is. This blog post looks at the price-performance characteristics computing Kirchhoff migration methods on GPUs using Nvidia’s GPU-optimized code.