Lockheed Martin Corporation

Stephen Ray Shafer

Kanad Ghose

Bing C Li

Richard T Evans

Robert Strebel

Reed Durand

Joseph T Morrison

Benjamin P Tongue

Timothy Douglas

Victoria Rose Tagarelli

David E Murphy

Ryan W Andrew

Khader S Fashho

Joseph R Grosso

A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, sensor data associated with a geographic location; processing, by the computing device, the sensor data to identify an infrastructure asset within the geographic location; determining, by the computing device, a condition of the infrastructure asset based on processing the sensor data; and storing or outputting, by the computing device, information regarding the condition of the infrastructure asset.

Automating the assessment of damage to infrastructure assets

In distributed memory multiprocessors, communication between processing elements (PEs) can have a significant impact on the overall computation time. In addition, contention for the communication links can often make PEs wait even longer for a message than would normally be required. Because of this, it is important to minimize the effects of inter-processor communication time. The present invention reduces the execution time of a parallel program by merging messages (also called message combining, or message consolidation) after the program has already been partitioned and scheduled onto the PEs. The data from two (or more) messages are combined and sent in a single communication by locating sections of the system where a merge will affect the overall execution time, and determining before the merge takes place whether it will positively or negatively affect the system.

Parallel program execution time with message consolidation

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Stephen Ray Shafer