Patrick Reed

2020

Lake A. Singh, William R. Whittecar, Marc D. DiPrinzio, Jonathan D. Herman, Matthew P. Ferringer, and Patrick M. Reed (2020): Low cost satellite constellations for nearly continuous global coverage, Nature Communications, Springer Nature Limited, Vol 11, Num 1

2016

Nathaniel W. Chaney, Eric F. Wood, Alexander B. McBratney, Jonathan W. Hempel, Travis W. Nauman, Colby W. Brungard, and Nathan P. Odgers (2016): POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States, Geoderma, Elsevier B.V., Vol 274, pp54-67
Nathaniel W. Chaney, Peter Metcalfe, and Eric F. Wood (2016): HydroBlocks: a field-scale resolving land surface model for application over continental extents, Hydrological Processes, Vol 30, Num 20, pp3543-3559

2015

N. W. Chaney, J. D. Herman, P. M. Reed, and E. F. Wood (2015): Flood and Drought Hydrologic Monitoring: The Role of Model Parameter Uncertainty, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Copernicus GmbH, Vol 19, Num 7, pp3239-3251
Nathaniel W. Chaney, Joshua K. Roundy, Julio E. Herrera-Estrada, and Eric F. Wood (2015): High-Resolution Modeling of the Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Moisture: Applications in Network Design, Water Resources Research, Wiley-Blackwell, Vol 51, Num 1, pp619-638
Patrick M. Reed, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Jonathan D. Herman, Matthew P. Ferringer, and Eric F. Wood (2015): Internationally Coordinated Multi-Mission Planning Is Now Critical to Sustain the Space-Based Rainfall Observations Needed for Managing Floods Globally, Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing, Vol 10, Num 2, pp024010

2014

Matthew Ferringer, Marc DiPrinzio, Timothy Thompson, Kyle Hanifen, and Patrick Reed (2014): A Framework for the Discovery of Passive-Control, Minimum Energy Satellite Constellations, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Patrick M. Reed and David Hadka (2014): Evolving Many-Objective Water Management to Exploit Exascale Computing, Water Resources Research, Wiley-Blackwell, Vol 50, Num 10, pp8367-8373

2013

Matthew J. Woodruff, Patrick M. Reed, and Timothy W. Simpson (2013): Many Objective Visual Analytics: Rethinking the Design of Complex Engineered Systems, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Springer Science + Business Media, Vol 48, Num 1, pp201-219

2015

Patrick Reed (2015): Design and Management of Satellite Assets to Advance Space Based Earth Science, 2015 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp48-49
Patrick Reed: Collaborative Research: Petascale Design and Management of Satellite Assets to Advance Space Based Earth Science
Blue Waters Symposium 2014, May 13, 2014

Satellite breakthrough brings near-total global coverage within reach


Jan 10, 2020

Researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to produce a breakthrough in the design of satellite configurations that solves a decades-old issue with their deployment.


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Many problems, many objectives


Oct 28, 2014

Let's say you want to buy a car. You want four doors, minimal cost, minimal upkeep, and high gas mileage. How do you find the car that best fits these objectives? That is a small-scale example of a multi-objective problem, one in which you try to optimize four or more factors. Patrick Reed, a professor at Cornell University, specializes in solving such problems on a much larger and more complex scale using massive computing systems like Blue Waters. He recently targeted water resource management in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) at the southern tip of Texas.


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House briefing highlights value of supercomputers for science, industry


May 2, 2014

On April 28 the four co-chairs of the House Science and National Labs Caucus—Reps. Randy Hultgren, Chaka Fattah, Ben Ray Luján, and Alan Nunnelee—sponsored a briefing on the value of federal investment in high-performance computing. The event was held in conjunction with the one-year anniversary of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer, a petascale powerhouse capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second that supports a wide range of science and engineering research across the country. ... Several scientists described the breakthrough research they have been able to achieve thanks to high-performance computing systems like Blue Waters: Patrick Reed (Cornell University) uses the Blue Waters supercomputer to better model the forces that act on the satellites we rely on for communication, navigation, and environmental monitoring. Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) refers to his research as using a “computational microscope” because using supercomputers to simulate the interactions of biomolecules provides an unprecedented view of the dynamic activities occurring in living cells.


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The Top Supercomputing Led Discoveries of 2013


Jan 2, 2014

2013 has been an incredible year for the entire ecosystem around supercomputing; from vendors pushing new technologies to boost performance, capacity, and programmability to researchers turning over new insights with fresh techniques. While exascale has taken more of a backseat than we might have predicted at the year’s end of 2010, there are plenty of signs that production HPC environments are blazing plenty of new trails. ...


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Keeping satellites on track


Oct 16, 2013

We rely on global satellite service for communications, navigation, and environmental monitoring, but have you ever thought about how satellites stay in orbit? Over time outside forces push and pull a satellite away from its original path. Scientists try to put the satellites in places that will minimize the need for course corrections, but lack of computing power has limited the accuracy of the algorithms that guide their decisions. Blue Waters changes that. ... “In reality, you launch your satellite system and from day one it starts to degrade from the idealized assumptions that you made because there are these perturbations from what you assumed,” says Patrick Reed, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University and principal investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation that is using Blue Waters.


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