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Bolshoi Simulation of the Universe [720p]

Uploaded by djxatlanta on Sep 29, 2011

The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made ("bolshoi" is the Russian word for "great" or "grand"). The first two of a series of research papers describing Bolshoi and its implications have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The first data release of Bolshoi outputs, including output from Bolshoi and also the BigBolshoi or MultiDark simulation of a volume 64 times bigger than Bolshoi, has just been made publicly available to the world's astronomers and astrophysicists.

The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground- and space-based observations, including NASA's long-running and highly successful WMAP Explorer mission that has been mapping the light of the Big Bang in the entire sky. One of the world's fastest supercomputers then calculated the evolution of a typical region of the universe a billion light years across. The Bolshoi simulation took 6 million cpu hours to run on the Pleiades supercomputer—recently ranked as seventh fastest of the world's top 500 supercomputers—at NASA Ames Research Center.

This visualization of dark matter is 1/1000 of the gigantic Bolshoi cosmological simulation, zooming in on a region centered on the dark matter halo of a very large cluster of galaxies.

credit: Chris Henze, NASA Ames Research Center

source: http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmcvFmlkYjY [more at/via http://www.youtube.com/results?hl=en&cp=10&gs_id=q&xhr=t&q=bolshoi+simulation ]


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How to build a virtual cosmos
September 30, 2011
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/30/8065274-how-to-build-a-virtual-cosmos [video above embedded; with comments]


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NASA Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations
Sept. 29, 2011
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2011/11-77AR.html


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