Creating and Using Virtual Prototyping Software: Principles and Practices

Dr. Douglass E. Post was the Chief Scientist of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program from 2005 to 2014 and was a Principal Researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute from 2016 to 2020. His major professional interest for almost 50 years has been the development and application of physics-based software to solve physics and engineering design and analysis problems. In 2005, he established and led the DoD Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) program, a multiyear DoD program to develop and deploy physics-based computational engineering software for the design of ships, air vehicles, ground vehicles, and RF antennas. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the AIP/IEEE publication Computing in Science and Engineering. Doug received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1975. He led the tokamak modeling group at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1975-1993), the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Physics Project Unit (1988-1990), and the ITER Joint Central Team In-vessel Physics Group (1993-1998). More recently, he led the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A&X Division (1998-2000) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001-2003) Programs to develop physics-based computer simulations for the design of nuclear weapons. He is the author of nearly 250 scientific and engineering publications and a Fellow of the APS, ANS, and IEEE; an AIAA Associate Fellow; and the recipient of ASNE 2011 Gold Medal.

Dr. Richard P. Kendall is a software engineering consultant with the DoD High Performance Computer Modernization Program (HPCMP). He has more than 50 years of experience in applications of computational mathematics to engineering problems. After graduating from Rice University in 1972, he joined Esso Production Research Co. (now Exxon Mobil) as a Senior Research Mathematician. There he was directly involved in the development of physics-based reservoir simulators, the enablers of early virtual prototypes of petroleum reservoirs. During the early 1980s, he helped start an ISV to develop high-performance software modeling tools for the international oil market, specifically state-owned companies that lacked the expertise of oil industry leaders such as ExxonMobil. This startup was eventually sold to Western Atlas International (now Schlumberger), where Dr. Kendall became the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Western Atlas Software Division. In the mid-1990s, he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a team leader for Oil & Gas Programs. In 1996, he was appointed Director of the Computational Testbed for Industry. This DOE User Facility provided U.S. companies such as Procter & Gamble access to state-of-the art supercomputers of the 1990s (for example, the Thinking Machines CM-5). Later at Los Alamos, he was appointed Chief Information Officer of the Laboratory. In 2007, he followed Dr. Douglass Post to the HPCMP CREATE program, where he still consults. He is a member of IEEE and SPE/AIME and has published in the fields of numerical analysis, petroleum engineering, information technology, and software engineering.

Dr. Douglass E. Post自2005年至2014年擔任美國國防部高性能計算現代化計劃的首席科學家，並於2016年至2020年擔任卡內基梅隆大學軟體工程研究所的主要研究員。他近50年來的主要專業興趣一直是開發和應用基於物理的軟體來解決物理和工程設計分析問題。2005年，他建立並領導了美國國防部計算研究和工程採購工具與環境（CREATE）計劃，該計劃是一個多年計劃，旨在開發和部署基於物理的計算工程軟體，用於設計船舶、航空器、地面車輛和射頻天線。他是AIP/IEEE出版物《科學與工程中的計算》的副主編。Doug於1975年從斯坦福大學獲得物理學博士學位。他曾領導普林斯頓等離子體物理實驗室（1975-1993）的托卡馬克建模小組，國際熱核聚變實驗堆（ITER）物理項目組（1988-1990），以及ITER聯合中央小組容器內物理小組（1993-1998）。最近，他領導了勞倫斯利弗摩爾國家實驗室A&X部門（1998-2000）和洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室（2001-2003）的計劃，開發基於物理的核武器設計的計算機模擬。他是近250篇科學和工程論文的作者，也是美國物理學會（APS）、美國核學會（ANS）和IEEE的會士，以及美國航空航天學會（AIAA）的副會士，並獲得了ASNE 2011年金牌獎。

Dr. Richard P. Kendall是美國國防部高性能計算現代化計劃（HPCMP）的軟體工程顧問。他在將計算數學應用於工程問題方面擁有超過50年的經驗。他於1972年畢業於萊斯大學，隨後加入埃索生產研究公司（現為埃克森美孚）擔任高級研究數學家。在那裡，他直接參與了基於物理的油藏模擬器的開發，這是早期石油油藏虛擬原型的關鍵。在1980年代初，他幫助創辦了一家獨立軟體供應商，專門為國際石油市場開發高性能軟體建模工具，特別是那些缺乏埃克森美孚等石油行業領導者專業知識的國有公司。這家初創公司最終被西方阿特拉斯國際（現為斯伯世界）收購，Kendall博士成為西方阿特拉斯軟體部門的高級副總裁和首席運營官。在1990年代中期，他加入了洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室，擔任石油和天然氣項目的團隊負責人。1996年，他被任命為工業計算測試床的主任。這個美國能源部用戶設施為美國公司（如寶潔公司）提供了當時最先進的超級計算機設備（例如Thinking Machines CM-5）。後來在洛斯阿拉莫斯，他被任命為實驗室的首席信息官。2007年，他跟隨Douglass Post博士加入了HPCMP CREATE計劃，目前仍然擔任顧問。他是IEEE和SPE/AIME的成員，並在數值分析、石油工程、信息技術和軟體工程領域發表過論文。