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SCALES OF THE UNIVERSE
By : Loyiso Matyumza
Supervisors:
Mr Reg Dodds
Prof. Catherine Cress
INTRODUCTION
Where do we come from?
Scales of the Universe The project is inspired by a short film Powers of
Ten created by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977. IBM
Orders of magnitude (factors of ten)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Create a short video to help gain a sense of the entire Universe
To present the images covering the entire earth, the stars of our galaxy, the Milky Way,
and beyond
A high resolution video that is informative and enjoyable to watch.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Catherine Cress Use a software package to produce simulations of galaxy evolution
Visualizing the astronomical data sets
Reg Dodds Be able to manipulate the simulated sets data using image processing
Using orders of magnitude zooming in and out in factors of 10
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS We attempt to examine universe in orders of
magnitude from 10-15 to 1022
Zooming from the Centre of High Performance Computing (CHPC) the Earth orbit to the Solar system, to our own galaxy out to the observable Universe
We highlight the significant astronomical objects of our interest.
We zoom in back to the CHPC then we start zooming in the inside of computer hardware, boards, microchip, silicon atom and the nucleus.
TOOLS TO BE USED
Computer simulation and high performance computing
Hardware Sun Hapertown Intel Xeon Processor 3.0Ghz 384 cores 430TB storage
Software GADGET-2 code OpenMPI Visualization software OpenCV C++ programming
PROJECT PLAN
Term Date of submission
Submitted?
1. Project Analysiso URDo RADo Website
03/04/2013YESYESYES
2. Project Designo Storyboardso Build a Prototype
29/05/2013 NO
3. Project Implementation
11/09/2013 NO
4. Project Testing 06/11/2013 NO
GLIMPSE
Scale of the Universe.xls
REFERENCES
Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of ten, IBM corp. 1977.
Volker Springel. The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 364:1105–1134, 2005.
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki M. J. Turk and B.D. Smith, High-Performance
Astrophysical Simulations and Analysis with Python, arXiv:1112.4482v1 [astro-ph.IM] 19 Dec 2011
Scales of the Universe 2 by Cary Haung
