UT Austin creates world's highest resolution tiled display: Stallion

If you thought 220 million pixels was a lot, well, you'd be right. But given how things are in Texas relative to everything else, we'd say there's no denying that 307 million pixels is indeed a lot more. Dubbed the world's highest resolution tiled display, Stallion has just been unveiled by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Designed for studying diminutive cells and checking out old game footage, the system boasts 75 Dell 30-inch LCDs, each of which has a native resolution of 2,560 x 1,600. It also packs 36GB of graphics memory, 108GB of system memory and 100 processing cores. And just think -- if the Longhorns could get that one game back against the Red Raiders, every fan within a 10-mile radius of Austin could see their team in the championship game on this thing.

[Via KanYeWest Blog]

[Mike10010100 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:01AM]

Oh God no. Please. No Crysis jokes.

And would you look at all of the graphics processor units underneath that thing? Talk about high def.

[Sam of the Sun Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:07AM]

This thing must sup a lot of juice from the mains.

[Mic2000 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:07AM]

Indeed, let's talk about the record of tiled XPS systems instead

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:42AM]

Do you think it can run crysis? I'm not joking.....

[blash Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:21PM]

But can it simulate the universe?

http://xkcd.com/505/

[XGM Posted Nov 23rd 2008 3:02PM]

But can it run Doom ?

[loocas Posted Nov 23rd 2008 3:12PM]

What do those LCDs have to do with the world crysis?!

[Love It Posted Nov 23rd 2008 5:36PM]

PRO - JEC - TOR...........



.........f*cking bezel bullsh*t

[Blackstar Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:02AM]

I claim this land for SPAIN!

[quotaPop Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:05AM]

That's a fuckton of pixels.

[Sam of the Sun Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:08AM]

Where fuckton = 307 million I presume.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:19AM]

no, you're thinking of a metric fuckton

[quotaPop Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:16AM]

Scientifically, of course.

[CubeGuy Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:28AM]

I love you guys.

Made my morning.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:17AM]

To sum up:

15 screens (2560px) by 5 screens (1600px)
38400 x 8000 px

I guess it'll be hard finding a wallpaper for that resolution!!

[Mic2000 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:22AM]

Google Earth?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:13PM]

When's Google Galaxy coming out?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 2:25PM]

Use a tile wallpaper.

[Quikboy Posted Nov 23rd 2008 3:02PM]

@Mobius_1 : There's something neat out there called WorldWide Telescope. If you haven't tried it yet, it''s pretty neat. A lot of imagery in and beyond our solar system.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

[XGM Posted Nov 23rd 2008 3:18PM]

http://www.mediafire.com/?unsintnbqcb

Problem solved, however its caused others as my wallpaper states. Only 3 formats to choose from, fonts cant go much bigger and alot of image sites cant handle it.

[Ghen Posted Nov 24th 2008 7:31AM]

error opening the file in paint.net roflcopter

[LonnieDVD Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:14AM]

Wow, that is the mother load of pixels.

[bobsakamano Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:15AM]

GO SOOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AJerman Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:08PM]

Hell yeah buddy! Best team in college football!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:29PM]

we'll see pretty sure bama hasnt lost yet...how was that neutral site 10 point loss to UT btw?

[rDub Posted Nov 24th 2008 7:55AM]

So ... who is # 2 in the BCS right now? Looks like those Longhorn fans might still have a chance to watch the big game on this big screen!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:19AM]

Why did you have to bring up that bad memory? Hook em.

[s1lph Posted Nov 24th 2008 2:27AM]

And just think, tech got raped by OU saturday night, so by induction, the longhorns now have OUaids.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 25th 2008 2:03PM]

no joke...it was painful enough being at that game...and now it keeps getting brought back up.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:19AM]

ATTENTION TO ubn2 :

Please don't say anything.


Thank you for your attention.

[therockr92 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:02PM]

Amen, brother!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:38AM]

Home sweet home...How I miss her..
They need to lose the LCD frame though..Wonder what there running.. More than likely.. Linux..
;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:58PM]

They are running SAGE- Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment developed by University of Illinois at Chicago
www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/sage

[Hernan Paredes Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:43AM]

btw i think you meant the red raiders, from texas tech, not the longhorns from texas...

[UnixSystemsEngineer Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:13PM]

The summary mentioned both teams. The game a few weeks back where the Red Raiders laid into the Longhorns, then the 'horns made it interesting at the end by coming from behind, but the Red Raiders took 'em down in the final minutes. Great game.

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:55PM]

@Murph
". . . if the Longhorns could get that one game back against the Red Raiders . . ."

I'm not even from Texas, but that some cold sh17, Shaft.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:30PM]

YOU DUMBASS. texas tech could never develop such technology.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:41AM]

Brb, moving mouse to other side of screen...

[PhoenixFox Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:51AM]

Having one of those trackpoints would make sense, or you'd need a mousepad the size of a small island.

Or lots of lifting and moving.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:15PM]

Or one of those arcade style light guns ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:25PM]

Or they just use a go-kart on a giant mouse-pad

[Mic2000 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:40PM]

Just use a tablet

[blash Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:23PM]

Trackball FTW

http://us.kensington.com/html/2200.html

just give it a large enough starting speed and you'll be there in a couple secs assuming your sensitivity is not uber low...

[Topsy Kretts Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:47AM]

I thought the article title was a Bill and Ted reference.

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:57PM]

If that were the case, it'd be spelled "Stallyn."

[therockr92 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:01PM]

Excellent!

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Nov 23rd 2008 1:09PM]

For that matter, it could've been a "Rocky" reference.

[roman1290 Posted Nov 23rd 2008 11:54AM]

It's stupid. To make the frames around the screens less annoying you have to stand back really far. But to appreciate the high res detail, you have to stand close.

[sip Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:03PM]

you're just jealous you don't have one

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2008 12:12PM]

Yes the bezels look like crap, what a waste.