Creating and Using Virtual Prototyping Software: Principles and Practices
暫譯: 創建與使用虛擬原型軟體：原則與實務

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.

道格拉斯·E·波斯特博士於2005年至2014年擔任美國國防部高效能計算現代化計畫的首席科學家，並於2016年至2020年擔任卡內基梅隆大學軟體工程研究所的首席研究員。他近50年的主要專業興趣是開發和應用基於物理的軟體，以解決物理和工程設計及分析問題。2005年，他建立並領導了美國國防部計算研究與工程採購工具與環境（CREATE）計畫，這是一個多年的美國國防部計畫，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Computing in Science and Engineering的副主編。道格於1975年獲得斯坦福大學的物理學博士學位。他曾領導普林斯頓等離子體物理實驗室的托卡馬克建模小組（1975-1993）、國際熱核融合實驗反應堆（ITER）物理專案單位（1988-1990）以及ITER聯合中央團隊的容器內物理小組（1993-1998）。最近，他領導了洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室的A&X部門（1998-2000）和洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室（2001-2003）計畫，開發基於物理的計算機模擬以設計核武器。他是近250篇科學和工程出版物的作者，並且是美國物理學會（APS）、美國核學會（ANS）和IEEE的會士；美國航空航天學會（AIAA）副會士；以及2011年ASNE金獎的獲得者。

理查德·P·肯達爾博士是美國國防部高效能計算現代化計畫（HPCMP）的軟體工程顧問。他在計算數學應用於工程問題方面擁有超過50年的經驗。1972年從萊斯大學畢業後，他加入了埃索生產研究公司（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，這些模擬器是早期石油油藏虛擬原型的基礎。在1980年代初期，他幫助創立了一家獨立軟體供應商（ISV），開發高效能的軟體建模工具，專門針對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公司（現為斯倫貝謝）收購，肯達爾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，他加入洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室，擔任石油和天然氣計畫的團隊領導。1996年，他被任命為工業計算測試平台的主任。這個美國能源部的用戶設施為美國公司（如寶潔公司）提供了1990年代最先進的超級計算機（例如，Thinking Machines CM-5）的使用權。後來在洛斯阿拉莫斯，他被任命為實驗室的首席資訊官。2007年，他跟隨道格拉斯·波斯特博士加入HPCMP CREATE計畫，至今仍在擔任顧問。他是IEEE和SPE/AIME的成員，並在數值分析、石油工程、資訊技術和軟體工程等領域發表過文章。