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Figure 14.2
Stallion
is the world's highest-resolution tiled display at 307 mil-
lion pixels. The system features 75 high-resolution 30
displays arranged in 15
columns of fi ve displays each.
Stallion
enables data sets to be processed on
a massive scale, with more than 36 gigabytes of graphics memory, 108 giga-
bytes of system memory, and 100 processing cores.
For applications in life sciences, earth sciences, and fl uid simulations, the
extreme panoramic size helps researchers be more fl exible. For example,
researchers can display a single, very large data set across all the monitors, or
they can display multiple views of a detailed data set at one time. They also
have the ability to show a large number of time-varying sequences and do
interactive 3-D modeling.
Stallion
was deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
at The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. The system was designed and
built by members of TACC's scientifi c visualization and advanced computing
systems groups.
(Photo and description provided courtesy of the Texas Advanced Computing
Center.)
of Texas at Austin, as seen in Figure 14.2. The
Stallion
installation,
deployed in 2008, allows for the direct examination of visual data up to
307 million pixels at a single time, creating a single display the size of an
entire wall that is capable of simultaneously displaying multiple graphic
and video streams.
