One of “Nvidia’s 2015 Global Impact award” finalists is computational scientist Yifeng Cui and his team who have developed a GPU-accelerated code (the AWP-ODC code) to create highly detailed simulations of high-frequency seismic waves as they propagate through the earth which makes a huge step to predict earthquakes.
“This month marks the fourth anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude quake off Japan’s east coast which, with the ensuing tsunami, killed 16,000 and caused some $235 billion in damage. Haiti, Chile and Indonesia have each been with catastrophic earthquakes in the past five years. Californians know another big one is a matter of time”.
Mankind has never been closer to predict when is the earth beneath their feet going to hunt them, but recently Cui and his team used the Nvidia Tesla GPU accelerator-powered Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility—and broke scientific and technical barriers.
This is the first time that scientists could simulate ground motions from large fault ruptures to frequencies as high as 10 Hertz in a physically realistic way. The ‘AWP-ODC’ code ran an estimated 5X faster on Nvidia GPUs with a complex geometry representative of the San Andreas Fault, than it would have on a traditional architecture.
This was only a profiling on one of finalists of Nvidia’s 2015 Global Impact Award, you can check more finalists’ profiling on Nvidia’s blog. “The award provides $150,000 to researchers using Nvidia technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems”.
Nvidia helped to predict Earthquake, NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact profiling
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