Another week, another high resolution display wall. This time at the University of Texas at San Antonio, using a $482,600 grant from the NSF, they will compile twenty-four 30″ monitors into a 15-foot wide by 4.5 foot tall “VisWall”, and drive it with a cluster of Linux workstations.
“(The Vis-Wall) can greatly enhance our ability to understand physical phenomena by building up digital representations — mathematical and computer models — and displaying complex experimental data in a comprehensible fashion,” Feng says. “In my current area of computational cancer research, this new visualization system will be able to display physical and biological systems, from nano- and micro-scale level objects such as nanoparticles and DNA molecules, up to meso- and macro-scale entities like cells, tissues and tumors, all at the same time.”
The VizWall will be used primarily by the new SiViRT center (Simulation, Visualization, and Real-Time Prediction) and miscellaneous teaching. At least that’s what the announcement says, I don’t think I have to tell you that primarily it will be used as a tour stop.
via UTSA receives grant for high-tech visualization wall – San Antonio Business Journal:.
