Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPHER S. BEARD

CHRISTOPHER S. BEARD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Scalable scheduling of parallel iterative seismic jobs
    Patent number: 11163092
    Abstract: System and method for scalable and reliable scheduling of iterative seismic full wavefield inversion algorithms with alternating parallel and serial stages of computation on massively parallel computing systems. The workers are independent, initiating actions and unaware of each other, and given limited information. This enables application of optimal scheduling, load-balancing, and reliability techniques specific to seismic inversion problems. The central dispatcher specifies the structure of the inversion, including task dependency, and keeps track of progress of work. Management tools enable the user to make performance and reliability improvements during the execution of the seismic inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Aleksandar Bobrek, Anoop A. Mullur, Christopher S. Beard, Arrian M. Brantley, Michael B. Townsley, Pavel Dimitrov
  • Scalable Scheduling of Parallel Iterative Seismic Jobs
    Publication number: 20160178801
    Abstract: System and method for scalable and reliable scheduling of iterative seismic full wavefield inversion algorithms with alternating parallel and serial stages of computation on massively parallel computing systems. The workers are independent, initiating actions and unaware of each other, and given limited information. This enables application of optimal scheduling, load-balancing, and reliability techniques specific to seismic inversion problems. The central dispatcher specifies the structure of the inversion, including task dependency, and keeps track of progress of work. Management tools enable the user to make performance and reliability improvements during the execution of the seismic inversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: ALEKSANDAR BOBREK, ANOOP A. MULLUR, CHRISTOPHER S. BEARD, ARRIAN M. BRANTLEY, MICHAEL B. TOWNSLEY, PAVEL DIMITROV