UT Austin creates world's highest resolution tiled display: Stallion
By Darren Murph 
posted November 23rd 2008 10:59AM
posted November 23rd 2008 10:59AM
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posted November 23rd 2008 10:59AM
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no joke - they could have at least taken the lcd panels out of their bezels and got them closer together
tiled? yawn!
anyone w/ enough money can slap together off the shelf displays.
this is not innovation, this is just "see, my dick is bigger than yours"
So true. But in this case it is, so I'm still impressed.
You mean stap-on...
And yes I agree with your comment. +1
Well, it *is* from Texas.
Jealous much?!
Personally, I think meshing up a load of HD projectors (possibly rear-projection) would be more impressive, and would give a more fluid look (they can overlap each other).
@Gav....
this is exactly what you're looking for...and its seamless...
I think this screen is bigger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2GvPMRecY
So basically theres 36 XPS units running that wall with 1GB Nvidia cards and 3GB of ram each per system.. probably means they're running a 32bit OS... you would think with a system so high tech they would have gone with 64bit..
PS: Thus proving.. everything truly IS bigger in Texas.
The Longhorns aren't out of it yet. If the Sooners beat the Cowboys next week, it'll be a three-way tie for the Big XII south. Then it all comes down to the BCS poll to break that tie. But even if they don't make it to the Big XII championship game, if the team that does goes on to lose to Missouri, they could still jump up to #2.
Texas - Oklahoma in the national championship.
Florida is going to lose to FSU. Then beat Alabama in the SEC championship.
Texas will then beat Oklahoma on a neutral field again. Hook em Horns.
We humans have vision that can ignore twigs and tree branches (dendrites) quite well, so the frames here seem less of an issue than perhaps they should be. The whole point of this exercise is to pick out significances from vast expanse, thus the purpose is defeated by having so much of the screen area literally confabulation within our primate minds.
Interlaced rear projection, though, seems the way forward, I concur. The difficulty might be in sustaining a flat surface for focus, but that, too, can be addressed electronically at the pixel level. Given the commercial incentive for improving sports screens, doubtless further improvements can be anticipated.
It just isn't that impressive when the images are broken up by the frames of the displays. How about a cluster of projectors with a minor bit of overlay on each other for a nice, big smooth image?
I'm going to try and find this on campus today. That picture doesn't tell me much but oh well I'm up for an adventure.
Shouldn't be to hard to find.
I swear, I saw it on Monday as I crossed through the computational sciences building. It was off and the room was dark but I could see bright red LEDs on the corner of every screen. Pretty amazing.
All this talk of big twelve teams what a joke. What about the Gators. If you think sooners are the number one team then the Gators must be the grim reapers of football. They will own anybody. Isn't that right BigTeebo. The display is just ok. When will I see cooler projects coming from UT. I didn't study ECE to do stuff like this. The power is impressive. I agree they definitely need to lose those frames. All that work and they left the frames. Geeeeez.
Am I the only one that noticed that their credit goes to the Kanye West blog?
Should I start checking the Kanye blog instead of Engadget first?
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Yeah just saw that. I think the comments there are much better. Less pricks I assume.
We still might be in that Championship game. What a great system the BCS is ... not. Hook em horns.
has no one realized that it won't be everyone in a 10-mile radius who see it, since no one who's behind it can see what's on the screens? it'll only be people in a 10-mile radius within the viewing angles, so what is it, 178 degrees around the center?
I'm sure Dell is loving this.
There's 23 XPS machines (some have 2 Nvidia cards each) and 8GB of memory per machine. It runs a 64-bit Linux now and can be booted into Windows HPC Server 2008. We're working on getting SAGE going on the Windows side (it can't quite drive the whole set of displays yet).
Just a thought but, are there any speakers on this monster? Football wouldn't be as great if you didn't have sound quality to match, ah yes bone crushing tackles, music to my ears.
Wow! First Godzillatron, now this?! It makes this gadget dork proud to live in Austin, the HD capital of the world :D
I just took a tour of their facility. The red boxes on the bottom under the screens, each one is a decked out computer. And these are just the computers that render the image. These computers do not do data processing. That's in a separate, huge, room.
hey, I've seen that thing on campus, haha, crazy shit. Go EE =D
yeah but...
...does it run on windows? :D
Cue in "You're not from Texas, you wouldn't understand" responses. 5-4-3-2-1
Imagine ONE stick of ram or one graphics card going bad, good luck finding it in that haystack.
Great achievement. Now they can work and reducing the 3" gaps between all of the monitors!
Hello. Check your BCS Rankings. UT is now #2.
Godzillatron II ???