HardOCP News
[H] News
- Joined
- Dec 31, 1969
- Messages
- 0
GPU technology toppled letters of the iconic Hollywood sign and lashed the Golden Gate Bridge with a tsunami in this summers blockbuster San Andreas. But thats the movies. In real life, researchers at the Southern California Earthquake Center are using GPU-powered high performance computing to develop CyberShake, a complex model that calculates how earthquake waves move through a 3D model of the Earth. This helps develop earthquake forecasts and more accurate hazard assessments.
SCECs initial target is the real Los Angeles region, where the Pacific and American tectonic plates run into each other to create the famed San Andreas Fault, which runs the length of California, and adjacent states. Their groundbreaking work earlier this year helped SCEC and their collaborators win NVIDIAs inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. This spring, the team used National Science Foundation and Department of Energy supercomputers Blue Waters and Titan to produce the most sophisticated seismic hazard analysis forecast yet for the Southern California region.
SCECs initial target is the real Los Angeles region, where the Pacific and American tectonic plates run into each other to create the famed San Andreas Fault, which runs the length of California, and adjacent states. Their groundbreaking work earlier this year helped SCEC and their collaborators win NVIDIAs inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. This spring, the team used National Science Foundation and Department of Energy supercomputers Blue Waters and Titan to produce the most sophisticated seismic hazard analysis forecast yet for the Southern California region.