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{\Huge The Department of Computer Science\\ 
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University of Nevada, Reno}

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{\Large cordially invites you to a Master's colloquium}

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        {\Huge \bf  Parallel Optimization of a NeoCortical Simulation Program}

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        A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the\\
        requirements for the degree of Master of Science\\
        with a major in Computer Science.

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        by

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        {\huge James Frye}

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        {\bf Abstract:} 
	This thesis describes work done in optimizing an existing
	NeoCortical Simulation Program (NCS), including the development
	of a set of parallel profiling and measurement tools.

	The NCS program is an ongoing project of the Brain Computation
	Lab.  Previous development work was most recently presented
	in E. Courtenay Wilson's thesis.  It will be shown that from
	that base, this work has increased sequential computation speed
	by at least an order of magnitude; increased the demonstrated
	model size by three orders of magnitude; created a program which
	exhibits near-linear speedup over the number of processors tested;
	and, despite having added significant additional functionality,
	has decreased the code base by some 45 percent.

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{\bf 3:00 pm, Wednesday, December 10, 2003}
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{ Room 234, Scrugham Engineering and Mines (SEM)}

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for more information contact 
Dr. Fred Harris @ 784-6571 (fredh@cs.unr.edu)
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