A GPU-Accelerated Simulator for Challenging Extreme-Scale Geomechanical Models

Abstract

Simulation software is a very common tool to model geomechanical problems since direct measurements are extremely expensive and usually unfeasible. In addition, there is an increasing interest in simulating past events and forecasting future ones. Very fine meshes are needed to provide a realistic representation of complex stratigraphy. Hence the full exploitation of modern HPC infrastructure is mandatory. In this work, a fully parallel GPU-accelerated simulator for extreme-scale models is presented and its performance is assessed through a real basin scale model that is used as benchmark.