Olaf O. Storaasli is a scientist & engineer who worked at NASA[1]), Oak Ridge National Laboratory[2]), 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 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 Archived 2016-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Scientific Programming 18 pp.

5 Computation Speed-up of Complex Durability Analysis of Large-Scale Composite Structures, AIAA 49th SDM Proc.

8 Performance Evaluation of FPGA-Based Biological Applications, Cray Users Group Proc.