CAVE’s have been around for a while, but are quickly being replaced with newer, cheaper, faster technology. The King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) is deploying several new visualization technologies, including today’s unveiling of the “world’s most advanced visualization facility” which is opening today. MechDyne gets credit for building their flagship installation, a massive VL6 they constructed, bringing a massive 100-million pixels and 10,000 lumens of data to your environment. In addition they’ve got 24 Quad-HD projectors running at4096x2160 each, and a multi-purpose room with a 32 million pixel digital cinema projection system that enables stereoscopic viewing for 75 people.
IEEE Spectrum has a reporter on-site viewing the impressive work Saudia Arabia has done in becoming a leader in the large visualization space:
I’m attending the inauguration ceremonies this week and got a quick tour of some of the university’s laboratories, including the supercomputer and the clean room. From my perspective, if you’ve seen one clean room, you’ve seen them all. What did draw my attention were the visualization labs, which are using Shaheen’s computing power to add a visual dimension to large data sets. The first example I’m posting here is of a visualization of the human brain, where researchers are attempting to trace how signals travel between different regions by mapping the flow of water through the brain.
You can read up on the KAUST facility at their website, and you can see video of the KAUST installations & the visualization of the human brain (mentioned) in the YouTube video after the break.
via KAUST: Visualization beyond the CAVE (Crunchgear) and IEEE Spectrum: Saudi Arabia Aims to Become Data Visualization Hub.
