UT Austin’s massive tile display

posted Nov 23rd 2008 6:19pm by Eliot
filed under: news, peripherals hacks

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The Texas Advanced Computing Center has built one of the largest tiled displays ever. They arranged 75 30inch Dell displays in a 5×15 pattern. The overall the system has 36GB of graphics memory and 108GB of system memory. They intend on using the system to display very large data sets. If you think the size seems arbitrary, it is. They just happened to purchase five more monitors than the University of California San Diego.

[via Engadget]

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8 Responses to UT Austin’s massive tile display

deoryp says:

November 23, 2008 at 6:23 pm

shoot… i only have 68

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pascal says:

November 23, 2008 at 6:27 pm

now remove the bezels :D

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browncardboard says:

November 23, 2008 at 7:03 pm

now wouldnt stringing multiple projectors together (like jonny lee’s hack?) produce a more seamless and impressive image?

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J-L Prickhard says:

November 23, 2008 at 7:28 pm

5-upy…

Seriously, good money plowed into some harebrained scheme of dubious scholarship.

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Ryan says:

November 23, 2008 at 7:38 pm

All that work and they kept the frames on the monitors? They should’ve taken those off at least…

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kyle says:

November 24, 2008 at 2:34 am

…epic isnt epic enough a workd

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kyle says:

November 24, 2008 at 2:34 am

*word

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ttrickyy says:

November 24, 2008 at 7:22 pm

@3- yes, it is more seamless (i have seen it done, it’s very cool looking, especially since the screens can rotate in and almost envelop you- see Anadarko Petroleum’s IDEA Lab : http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2002/01/14/newscolumn1.html gives some good background, i can’t find a pic.) The technology is rather impressive, including the price (it wasn’t done cheaply, let’s say), especially considering that they have IR-triggered electronic glasses for people to wear in order to make the screen 3D, I forget what the actual technology is called.

The problem that having projectors (and the thing I believe UT was trying to overcome) is the severely limited resolution that projectors can provide that monitors can.

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