Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT: HIPerwall 50 display grid

madmax_br5 opened this issue on Nov 08, 2005 ยท 7 posts


madmax_br5 posted Tue, 08 November 2005 at 7:13 PM

Link: http://vis.eng.uci.edu/cg/projects/hiperwall/ A team of researchers at the University of California Irvine (UCi) have created a 50 display grid driven simultaneously by a cluster of 25 dual 2.7GHZ powermac G5 systems, together displaying a combined resolution of over 200 megapixels. Yikes! But, they should have taken the display housings off, who needs the bezel with a project like this?


pakled posted Tue, 08 November 2005 at 8:14 PM

does it render Bryce pics any faster?..;)

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AgentSmith posted Tue, 08 November 2005 at 10:18 PM

If you couldn't render Bryce faster with a networked system of 25 dual 2.7GHZ powermac G5 systems...you're doing something incredibly wrong. AS

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madmax_br5 posted Tue, 08 November 2005 at 10:57 PM

Something that would take three hours to render on my current machine would take six minutes on that cluster. Neato :/


bandolin posted Wed, 09 November 2005 at 7:22 AM

And the latest Macs are dual 2.5 Ghz dual core PPC chips. Intinsically, 4 CPUs in one machine. With 25 of them linked together it would be more efficient to cool them with one of those Hollywood wind machines.


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AgentSmith posted Wed, 09 November 2005 at 7:36 AM

Whatever it takes.

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marcfx posted Wed, 09 November 2005 at 10:49 AM

How many people does it take to log on?.......one day this will be in handhelds! LOL


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