Chris Leader
 
GROUP REPORT

April 26th 2012
This week sees the paper deadline for our biannual group research report. I am providing two papers - one on GPU based domain decomposition and the other on augmenting phase-encoded inversion with random boundaries. This latter comprises my efforts on fast GPU imaging, aiming to minimise disk access at the expense of some extra computation.

EAGE TALK ACCEPTED

March 2012
My work on GPU based linearised inversion has been accepted for an oral presentation at the EAGE conference in Copenhagen this June. Specifically I will taking about how we look at balancing IO with computation.

SITE EXPANSION

January 3rd 2012
In an attempt to provide a website useful to those that find their way here for either geophysics or other interests, there is now a separate blog site (which can be find in the lefthand side navigation frame) for those here for fun and not work

FERMI GPU CARDS ARRIVE

November 16th 2011
Our 32 new NVIDIA Fermi GPU cards have arrived, along with a 12x16 Gb HP head node. Pictures of assembly to follow shortly.

CAROL SING REHEARSALS BEGIN

October 25th 2011
Band practices begin for the 10th annual Maddux Carol Sing. Armed with a new digital piano and multiple returning performers it appears that all in attendance on December 3rd will be in for a real treat.

RETURN TO STANFORD

September 25th 2011
After a summer of living in Houston and working for Shell Internatioal Exploration and Production I have returned to Stanford to begin the first quarter of my third year.

BACK TO TEXAS!

September 18th 2011
Three days after arriving back in Palo Alto I am leaving for Texas once again, although this time flying to San Antonio for the 2011 SEG meeting.

SUMMER ROAD TRIP

September 9th 2011
Taking the long way back from Houston and visiting Carlsbad Caverns, NM; Roswell, NM; Santa Fe, NM; Four Corners , NM/UT/CO/AZ; Flagstaff, AZ; Grand Canyon, AZ; Hoover Dam, AZ/NV; Las Vegas, NV and finally Palo Alto, CA.

ACCEPTED TO NVIDIA GPU TECH CONFERENCE 2012

August 2011
My work on GPU accelerated random boundary reverse time migration in 3D with Bob Clapp and Xukai Shen has been accepted to the annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA for the 2012 meeting.


I am two years into my PhD at Stanford, working as member of the Stanford Exploration Project. Specifically my work involves the separation of overlapping and interfering wavefields, wave propagation and imagaing accleration using advanced computing architechtures and in using spectral estimation methods to regularise and interpolate irregularly acquired data.

I work closely with Prof. Jon Claerbout, Prof. Biondo Biondi and Dr. Robert Clapp, in addition to the other 14 students and 3 consulting faculty we have in SEP. Lots of information on the group, research and how to apply can be found at the group site.

In addition to these primary seismic imaging projects I am undertaking a secondary project with the Stanford Rock Physics group advised by Gary Mavko. Here I am studying how certain geologic and mechanical settings can induce and affect seismic wave velocity anisotropy.

On this site you will find information about my current research and interests, as well as my personal interests and hobbies. Note the new excitingly scrollable news panel on the right!