Olaf Storaasli

Olaf O. Storaasli is a scientist & engineer who worked at NASA), Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Centrus Energy, & Synective Labs. At NASA, he led a hardware, software & applications teams to successfully develop one of NASA's first parallel computers, the finite element machine, & developed rapid matrix equation algorithms tailored for high-performance computers to harness FPGA & GPU accelerators to solve science & engineering applications. He was a graduate advisor & instructor at the University of Tennessee, George Washington University & Christopher Newport University.

Education
Storaasli received a B.A. in physics, mathematics, & French at Concordia College (1964). He went on to earn an M.A. in mathematics at University of South Dakota (1966) and a Ph.D in engineering mechanics at NCSU (1970). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology ( (1984–85]) & the University of Edinburgh(2008).

Research
He develops, tests and documents parallel analysis software to speed matrix equation solution to simulate physical & biological behavior on advanced-computer architectures (e.g. NASA's GPS solver based on prior Finite element machine and rapid parallel analysis of Space Shuttle SRB redesign earned Cray's 1st GigaFLOP Performance Award at Supercomputing '89).

Books

 * Engineering Applications on NASA's FPGA-based Hypercomputer, 7th MAPLD, Washington, D.C., Sept 2004.
 * Large-Scale Analysis, Design and Intelligent Synthesis Environments, Elsevier Sciences, 2000.
 * Large-Scale Analysis & Design on High-Performance Computers & Workstations, Elsevier Sciences, 1998.
 * Large-Scale Structural Analysis for High-Performance Computers & Workstations, Pergamon Press 1994.
 * Parallel Computational Methods for Large-Scale Structural Analysis & Design, Pergamon Press 1993.
 * Parallel Methods on Large-Scale Structural Analysis & Physics Applications, Pergamon Press 1991.