| Olaf Storaasli | |
| Birth Date: | 15 May 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation: | Computational Science & Engineering |
Olaf O. Storaasli is a scientist & engineer who worked at NASAhttps://larcalumni.org/about-the-laa/), Oak Ridge National Laboratoryhttps://www.ornl.gov/group/ft), 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.
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 (https://web.archive.org/web/20180117131542/http://73.121.39.212:8080/~olaf/OS/www/nasa/Thompson.jpg (1984–85]) & the University of Edinburgh(2008).
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).
1 Olaf Storaasli at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2 State-of-the-Art in Heterogeneous Computing, Scientific Programming 18 pp. 1–33, IOS Press, 2010.(+PARA10)
3 High-Performance Mixed-Precision Linear Solver for FPGAs, IEEE Trans Computers 57/12, 1614–1623, 2008.
4 Accelerating Science Applications up to 100X with FPGAs, PARA08 Proc.Trondheim Norway, May 2008.
5 Computation Speed-up of Complex Durability Analysis of Large-Scale Composite Structures, AIAA 49th SDM Proc. 2008.
6 Accelerating Genome Sequencing 100-1000X MRSC Proc. Queen's University, Belfast, UK April 1–3, 2008.
7 Exploring Accelerating Science Applications with FPGAs, NCSA/RSSI Proc. Urbana, IL, July 20, 2007.
8 Performance Evaluation of FPGA-Based Biological Applications, Cray Users Group Proc. Seattle, May 2007.
9 Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication Design on FPGAs, IEEE 15th Symp on FCCM Proc., 349–352, 2007.
10 Computing at the Speed of Thought, Aerospace America pp. 35–38, Oct. 2004.
11 Preface: A Computational Scientist's Perspective on Appellate Technology, 15 J. App. Prac. & Process 39-46 2014.
12 before 2008.
13. Interview with Astronaut Charlie Camarda.
