http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/ Engadget Comments for HIPerSpace visualization system takes the crown with 220 million pixels http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/
Thats all well and good BUT can it play Doom? Can I hook up my Wii to it? C'mon I know the guys at U of C already have - hook a brother up!

Thanks as always for the awesome story from the guys over @ http://www.askTheAdmin.com - I don't know what I would do with out my hourly dose of the Engadget!]]>Aug 23rd 2007 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/
By the Numbers:
- Number of tiles: 50 (fully supported in networked configuration)
- Display resolution: 25,600 x 8,000 pixels, 204,800,000 pixels total
- Number of display nodes: 25
- Control and development nodes: 3

Hardware:
- 11 Dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5’s with nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL
- 17 Dual 2.7GHz Power Mac G5’s with nVIDIA Quadro FX4500s
- 56 Apple 30” Cinema Displays

Operating System:
- Mac OS X Server "Tiger"]]>Aug 23rd 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/
It consist of 55 (11x5) Dell 30 LCDs, powered by 15 Dell XPS 720 machines with 2.6 GHz Core 2 Quad, 4 GB RAM, and 2 Quadro FX 5600 video cards (each with 1.5 GB video ram).

There are plans to extend the wall to 75 monitors.]]>Aug 23rd 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.rocksclusters.org ). It's a special distribution of Linux developed by the San Diego Supercomputing Center for cluster computing.]]>Aug 23rd 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/
We tried taking the bezel off one of the monitors...and they're not just there for display. There's electronics packed in to the very edge.]]>Aug 23rd 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/
http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/25/uc-irvines-monster-hiperwall-monitor/]]>Aug 23rd 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/nicely done

Slow news day]]>Aug 23rd 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Aug 23rd 2007 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/hiperspace-visualization-system-takes-the-crown-with-220-million/Putting 55 monitors together is impressive but that's not a technological breakthrough to me.
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