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Stringing 75 monitors together makes for one killer display
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas has just set up the world's highest resolution toiled display, linking together a whopping 75 30-inch Dell monitors to make one insane display setup. I mean, sure, it might be meant for scientific purposes or whatever, but imagine playing video games on this thing.
Here's some raw stats for you: the 75 monitors are arranged in 15 columns of five displays each. Each display has a resolution of 2560x1600 for a combined total of 307 million pixels. The computers powering the monitors sport more than 36 gigabytes of graphics memory, 108 gigabytes of system memory, and 100 processing cores. Yeah, it's pretty sweet.
U of Texas, via Hard OCP
By SDC at 2:54 PM ON 11/24/08
Yeah, but is it a touch screen??? :)
By Boxerfanatic at 3:20 PM ON 11/24/08
With a display that big... you would need the virtual touch system, like Minority report, with multi-touch-like gesture controls. you couldn't reach the whole screen to touch it.
All while sitting in your web-browsing chair. Keyboard and virtual gloves, and that screen wrapped 120 degrees around you... :D
Those borders are pretty thin, but if they could get them even thinner, or somehow make the screens nearly edge-less...
Yeah, that's the ticket... add a hydration source, and you'd be set for hours at a time :D
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