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Hey, what the hell are these guys doing in my future house? Imagine all the por...errr, things you could do with a setup like this. :eek: Thanks to darkstarcow for the linkage.

An 18-node visualization cluster provides the rendering backbone for the Reality Deck facility. Each node features dual Intel Xeon CPUs, each with 6 cores, as well as 48 GB of RAM and 1 TB of local storage. The nodes are interconnected over Infiniband and Gigabit Ethernet. Every machine contains 4 AMD Firepro V9800 GPUs that can drive up to 6 monitors at their native resolution. Effectively, each cluster node can drive up to 24 monitors for almost 90 megapixels of visual space.
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Azhar said:
Yeah, I'm not sure why they decided to go with a bunch of 21 inch monitors when they could have went with fewer 52 inch televisions too.
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THIS! ^^

Why in the hell would they chose those monitors? Bezeless and/or bigger screens would have been much more efficient?

Personally this screams FAIL to me.
 
pixel density....why go for a 52" screen at 1080p when i can get a 21-22" @ 1080p and have it appear much clearer at a closer eye distance. bigger per node screens does not equal better. now if you could convince them to get 46"+ 4K resolution displays....THAT would be epic.

as it stands i could see the tech being put to great use for massive CAD viewing, etc. in general it seems less like a usability show than a publicity/tech stunt to represent what is possible with current gen off the shelf hardware.


disclaimer: i watched the video without sound - whatever those folks were babbling on about....i didnt ear a word. :D
 
Yeah those bezels, I don't know why they didn't find a way to remove them, that's why you have grad students to do the tedious work. But for a proof of concept, not to shabby to sync up 800 monitors (or whatever it is)... although digital billboards essentially do the same thing.
 
Very cool although the moment it showed the Google earth satellite view all I could think was "They need to be touch screen so you could slide the images around just like on a tablet.
 
This is closer to the astrometrics lab than it is a holodeck.
 
Doesn't Holodeck stand for Holographic Deck? There are no Holgrams here, just a wall of monitors, bla
 
I REALLY liked the part where they didn't actually show the screens and desired effect without someone taking up half the screen talking. The part where they did show the screens they showed them super close up so as to ruin the effect which was really cool too!

Technology gets a 6/10 due to massive bezels and grossly nonuniform screens (brightness variants were way off). Seems just like a massive Eyefinity setup...a greater undertaking in this one, but not particularly difficult.

Video gets a 1/10...easily one of the worst videos I've ever seen.
 
someone at amd said their end goal was a holodeck with in the next 10 years
 
I kept waiting for gesture related movement of the screen images. If it's going to be called a Reality Deck, then the ability to interact with the environment seems a must.
 
they could always try to implement a bezel-free solution but I bet they didn't have the funds...after paying the boatload of cash for the V9800 cards (two-year old architecture too).

not sure why they didn't go with a 7970/7990 or perhaps NVidia's 680/690.....they all have higher processing capabilities...more bandwidth and less per card cost.
the savings could be used to get panels to make it a seamless display.
 
MoFoQ said:
they could always try to implement a bezel-free solution but I bet they didn't have the funds...after paying the boatload of cash for the V9800 cards (two-year old architecture too).

not sure why they didn't go with a 7970/7990 or perhaps NVidia's 680/690.....they all have higher processing capabilities...more bandwidth and less per card cost.
the savings could be used to get panels to make it a seamless display.
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They didn't do that because that would have been the smarter thing to do. Personally I didn't understand their decision either. Makes absolutely no sense in my mind.

I mean, the going rate for a SINGLE V9800 is enough to buy FOUR 7970's or 680's. Money that could have been spent elsewhere like...oh I don't know...better fuck monitors?!

Sigh...
 
JoeUser said:
They didn't do that because that would have been the smarter thing to do. Personally I didn't understand their decision either. Makes absolutely no sense in my mind.

I mean, the going rate for a SINGLE V9800 is enough to buy FOUR 7970's or 680's. Money that could have been spent elsewhere like...oh I don't know...better fuck monitors?!

Sigh...
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shoot...the going rate at some places for the V9800 is enough to get 4 690's

*insert patrick stewart facepalm here*
 
they could have just waited liike 3 years and had bezelless OLED screens :)
 
schnell said:
Iowa State University's C6 blows this crap out of the water. There are no bezels to be see in it and it is 360 screen. I have been in it. It is Crazy!

http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/c6.php
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No THIS is the shit! Only 100 million pixels though...the shits in the OP is like 1.5 billion. Either way what you have looks much cooler and holo deck-ish.

BladeVenom said:
What video card do you need to run 416 monitors?
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Seriously dude? Not only is your answer in the link, its also in the OP, and mentioned like 10x in this thread. Read fuck fail!
 
Im not impressed, electronics stores have been combining monitors into a big ass display for years. I agree it would be much better if they were touch screen to move the images around.
 
They probably got the V9800 cards because the "consumer" grade cards don't support all the same features in the drivers.

Firepro vs Radeon is worlds of difference in CAD software solely because of the drivers.

Same goes for Quadro vs Geforce.
 
What the fuck is the point of that? "Visualizing big data?" What the fuck does that mean?

Someone got a D- on their MBA final project.
 
Azhar said:
Yeah, I'm not sure why they decided to go with a bunch of 21 inch monitors when they could have went with fewer 52 inch televisions too.
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...that only do 1920x1080. You get more virtual real estate with 21" monitors.
 
the-one1 said:
rewted said:
This is closer to the astrometrics lab than it is a holodeck.
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No 7of9, me no want
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not even close to 7's lab

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