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SEA seminar: Computational Science and Engineering Software Development Risks

Richard P. Kendall, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Presentation from the seminar
Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness

    Topic: Computational Science and Engineering Software Development Risks

    Because the development of large-scale scientific/engineering application codes for high performance computers is an often difficult, complicated and sometimes uncertain process, success depends on identifying and managing risk. Some important sources of risk specific to this venue include:

    • Research Driven Requirements At Odds with Requirements-Driven Software Engineering Methods
    • Complex Mathematical Models -- Exacerbated in Systems of Systems
    • Complex Computer Architectures The Price We Pay for Commodity Parts
    • Inadequate Software Infrastructures No Viable Commercial Model for Third-Party Software
    • Rudimentary Approaches to Validation and Verification Can We Believe Our Models?

    About the Speaker:

    Richard P. Kendall has been a developer/user/manager of large-scale scientific/engineering simulations for more than 35 years. He retired as Chief Information Officer of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003 and is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University). Richard received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rice University in 1973. He began his professional career at Humble Production Research Co. (now ExxonMobile) in numerical oil reservoir simulation. In 1982 Richard joined a start-up petro-technical software company, J.S. Nolen & Associates, as Vice-President. J.S. Nolen & Assoc. was acquired by Western Atlas International, Inc. in 1983. At Western Atlas, Richard rose to the rank of Chief Operating Officer (1990) of the Western Atlas Software Division. This division developed geophysical, geological and reservoir modeling software. In 1995 he joined Los Alamos National laboratory and was appointed Chief Information Officer in 2000. Richard has published over 60 refereed papers. He is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

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