A Parallel Seismic Imaging and Volume Rendering in Oil Exploration

In this work, we present an efficient parallel implementation of a depth migration RTM (Reverse Time Migration) method to obtain a seismic image. This migration technique is based on the parallel solution of the acoustic wave propagation in 2D using a finite difference scheme. We have implemented a domain decomposition on the geological section and exploit an efficient asynchronous communication between processors using MPI library. Also, we produce several axis-aligned seismic images of the terrain and apply a volume visualization technique using graphic hardware in order to obtain a 3D block representation of the terrain. We test our implementation on a real model from Tupure-Carora reservoir, Venezuela. We have applied HPC technique on a Sun Grid Cluster belongs to CEMVICC. This cluster has 16 dual AMD opteron processors