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Highest Resolution Wall Around

Posted by Hemos on from the anyone-for-home-use? dept.

akhaksho writes "NCSA (the National Center for Supercomputing Applications) is in the process of building the highest resolution display wall in academia. This is similar to the previous story about the wall at Sandia, but the intention of this wall is to get very high resolutions at a reasonable cost using off the shelf technology (for the most part). All of the code to run it and plans for the physical infrastructure will be available as part of the Display Wall in a Box effort. I'm one of the guys that built this sucker (and have the scars to prove it!) "

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  1. Hmmmm I wonder if this by carlcmc1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    and the story about VisuaLABS groutfree wall display technology is related?

  2. Already done? by ratguy · · Score: 2, Funny
    Didn't someone already create one of these, back in the 1500's, only at a much higher resolution?

    Oops.. my mistake.. that was a ceiling, not a wall.

    Ratguy

  3. Re:two questions. by Dr.+Prakash+Kothari · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, that moderator crack hits ya pretty hard, doesn't it?

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    "Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or dead." -Kurt Cobain

  4. finally by Phork · · Score: 2, Funny

    finally, someone has made a beowulf cluster of monitors.

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    -- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
  5. Re:Wow! This is right down the street from me! by SubGhandi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me too! I've played Quake2 in the Cave, and it's really intense. I saw the Quake3 graphics demo on the wall, and I've never seen a sharper picture in my life. As for those wondering about the cost justification.... It's research! They need very little of that. www.lan-fest.com

  6. SCARS?! by Sc00ter · · Score: 3, Funny
    "I'm one of the guys that built this sucker (and have the scars to prove it!)"

    If you get scars from building it, I don't wanna build one!

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    Free Mac Mini
  7. Materials... by Moonshadow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this by any chance use VisuaLABS GroutFree(tm) technology?

    Wow!

  8. Wow... by Sir_Real · · Score: 3, Funny

    "... 8,096 pixels across and 3,840 pixels high on an 18-foot-wide screen ... "

    Porn wouldn't be any fun...

    "Good Lord, I think I can see her kidneys!"

  9. On my computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I only have a resolution of 640x452.

    I'm jealous.