NDLI: Parallel Implementation and Performance Analysis of a 3D Oil Reservoir Data Visualization Tool on the Cell Broadband Engine and CUDA GPU

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Siba, F.N. Mohammad, S. Kidwai, H.K. Qamar, B. Awwad, F.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Usefulness of graphically visualizing and manipulating large data sets in oil and gas exploration and production is as important as ever. This paper describes the development and parallelization of a multi-phase 3D oil-water reservoir visualization tool on the IBM Cell computer and CUDA enabled GPU. An independent Oil reservoir simulator described in [1] was used to generate the pressure and oil / water saturation values over a certain period of time. The oil reservoir visualization tool displays data grids in a 3D environment and allows the user to interact with it. Due to large speed requirements, our aim is to parallelize the computations required to interact with and visualize the grid, mainly transformation [2], zooming, camera movement [3] and compute intensive lighting model [4][5]. This tool also allows the user to playback the simulation results over a time duration and fetches data values upon mouse click at a particular grid point on a particular day. The development environments are nVIDIA CUDA and IBM Cell SDK 3.0 along with QT and OpenGL libraries. Various experiments were run on an x86 computer with nVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 GPU, and on an IBM Cell BE computer with 1 QS20 Cell blade containing two 9-core Cell processor packages. Our results indicate that the nVIDIA GPU provides on average, speed up of 67x over serial implementation and IBM Cell BE with 16 SPE SIMD implementation 32x over the serial implementation.
Starting Page	970
Ending Page	975
File Size	462675
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467321648
DOI	10.1109/HPCC.2012.141
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-25
Publisher Place	United Kingdom
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	OpenGL Parallel Visualization tool Vectors IBM Cell BE GPU Graphics processing unit CUDA Image color analysis Lighting Data visualization Oil reservoir simulator Reservoirs Cameras nVidia Oil Reservoir
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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