We carried out a fast processing investigation based on a graphics
processing unit (GPU) for a distributed acoustic sensor using a linear
frequency modulation pulse. The moving window cross-correlation
calculations are realized on the GPU, which makes use of parallel
computing. We analyzed the effect of the thread number in a block on
the GPU streaming multiprocessor utilization efficiency and then
compared the acceleration under different calculation scales. By
maximizing the streaming multiprocessor utilization efficiency and
large calculation scale, a maximum acceleration ratio of 86.01 was
obtained.