Catherine Olschanowsky, Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Catherine (Cathie) Olschanowsky is currently a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Boise State University. She was previously a research professor in the Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Departments at CSU. Her research area is high performance computing application performance. Dr. Olschanowsky joined the CFD & Propulsion Laboratory in July 2013, and her work involved using the Rose compiler to customize CFD applications to complex computer architectures. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at San Diego in the Performance Modeling and Characterization Laboratory. Dr. Olschanowsky also previously worked as a research scientist and software engineer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Adapt Data Flow Optimization Group

Cathie is the director of the Application Data flow optimizations with Programming languages and Transformations lab (Adapt) at Boise State University.

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Area of Study: Performance Modeling
• M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Area of Study: Networking and Distributed Computing
• B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

Publications

• Bertolacci I., C. Olschanowsky, B. Harshbarger, B. Chamberlain, D. Wonnacott, M.M. Strout. “Parameterized Diamond Tiling for Stencil Computations with Chapel Iter- ators.” The International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2015.
• Olschanowsky C., S. Guzik, J. Loffeld, J. Hittinger, M.Strout. “A Study on Balancing Parallelism, Data Locality, and Recomputation in Existing PDE Solvers.” In: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), November 2014.
• Michelle Mills Strout, Fabio Luporini, Christopher D. Krieger, Carlo Bertolli, Gheorghe- Teodor Bercea, Catherine Olschanowsky, J. Ramanujam, and Paul H.J. Kelly. “Gen- eralizing Run-time Tiling with the Loop Chain Abstraction.” In: 28th IEEE Inter- national Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 19-23, 2014.
• Olschanowsky C., S Shannigrahi, C Papadopoulos. “Supporting Climate Research Using Named Data Networking.” IEEE 20th International Workshop on Local & Metropoli- tan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2014.

Areas of Interest

• Parallel Computing
• Memory Optimizations
• Automatic Code Transformation

• Fall 2018, Parallel Computing (CS430/530)
• Fall 2017/Spring 2018, Introduction to Systems Programming (CS253)
• Spring 2017, Programming Language Translation (CS450/550)
• Fall 2016, Parallel Computing (CS430/530)
• Fall 2015, Colorado State University, Parallel Computing (CS475)

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