We present a progress report on our investigation of the thermodynamics of QCD with N f = 2 flavors of dynamical Wilson fermions in the limit of a large number of colors N c . To date, studies of the thermodynamics of QCD at large N c have been limited to the quenched approximation, i.e., to the behavior of pure SU(N c ) gauge theory at large N c . This is the first study of thermodynamics at large N c using dynamical fermions, and thus the first study able to test whether the quenched

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... tion is a valid way to investigate large N c thermodynamics. After reviewing 't Hooft's large N c limit, we discuss the automation we use to make this study feasible, and finally compare our preliminary physics results for SU(3 − 5) with large N c expectations.