By sciencebase, Section News Posted on Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 10:50:05 PM PST
Scientists need higher high def displays than anyone else, not because they want to get the best view of the whale-throwing scene in Hancock or because they want to home in on amateur close-ups, but because the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially. Now, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has unveiled the highest-resolution display system for scientific visualization in the world.
The Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space (HIPerSpace) features nearly 287 million pixels of screen resolution. My 17" widescreen laptop has just over 1.2 million, for comparison.
The resolution of the HIPerSpace display is more than 10 percent higher than the second-largest display in the world, constructed by NASA Ames Research Center, the 256-million-pixel hyperwall-2.
"Amazingly it took our team less than a day to tear down the original wall, relocate and expand it," said Falko Kuester, principal investigator of the HIPerSpace system. "The higher resolution display takes us more than half-way to our ultimate goal of building a half-billion-pixel tiled display system to give researchers an unprecedented ability to look broadly at large data sets while also zooming in to the tiniest details."
Scientists need higher high def displays than anyone else, not because they want to get the best view of the whale-throwing scene in Hancock or because they want to home in on amateur close-ups, but because the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially. Now, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has unveiled the highest-resolution display system for scientific visualization in the world.
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