Title:
Parallel Optimization of a NeoCortical Simulation Program

  by James Frye

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 This thesis describes work done in optimizing an existing NeoCortical Simulation Pro-gram
(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 de-velopment
work was most recently presented in [18]. Using the results presented there as
a baseline, it will be shown that this work has increased 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 avail-able
for testing; and, despite having added significant additional functionality, has decreased
the code base by some 45 percent.
Posted on:16 Dec 2003