Cross-platform Benchmarking of Seismic Imaging Kernels

The article presents a framework designed for standardized cross-platform benchmarking of seismic imaging kernels. This framework aims to standardise the benchmarking process, providing reference implementations for various architectures and enabling reproducible experiments. The system uses GitHub Actions for automation, a development cluster composed of different computer architectures, and on-demand runners on AWS. This setup allows for easy comparison of different methods, hardware, while also enabling the integration of more tools and servers. Preliminary results are presented for 3D isotropic acoustic and Fletcher Du Fowler TTI benchmarks, using Giga-points per second (GPts/s) as a performance unit, providing more practical insights compared to the standard FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second) metric.