GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection

Posted by timothy on Monday July 11, 2011 @10:01PM from the how-quaint-an-ancient-star-dome dept.

MojoKid writes "The Adler Planetarium has finished a major two-year upgrade project that's replaced the facility's forty year-old Zeiss Mark VI projector with a 'Digital Starball' system designed by Global Immersion Ltd. The new digital system is powered by an array of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs. The specs behind the system are impressive. The 71-foot dome of the Grainger Sky Theater now contains a score of military-grade projectors with an 8kx8k resolution. The final 64 megapixel image is generated by an array of 42 NVIDIA Quadro GPUs and offers an unprecedented degree of real-time modeling horsepower. The planetarium's model of the universe was created in part from high-definition photos captured around the world and via the Hubble telescope."

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Re:Military grade? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-11 22:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Military grade = So expensive that we sell these to the military (and they are silly enough to pay this much for fancily rebadged off-the-shelf hardware)
Re:WTF by ledow · 2011-07-11 22:15 · Score: 1, Funny

I want a refund on my tax, please.
Powerpoint for soldiers? What next, battle plans sent via MS .docx? :-)