UT creates the highest-resolution tiled display ever

Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:47AM EST

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As someone who loves technology, I always take the time out to appreciate new technology that pushes boundaries, breaks records, or is just plain extreme. The University of Texas' newest 20.5-foot by 7.5-foot display is a perfect example.

The display, codenamed "Stallion", is now the world's highest-resolution tiled display ever, coming in at a stunning 307 million pixels. There are a total of 75 "tiles"—each tile being a 30-inch Dell flat panel display—set up in a 15 column by 5 row array. The whole setup is powered with 36 GB of graphics memory, 108 GB of system memory, and 100 processing cores—intense.

If you're curious, the next in the line of "highest-resolution tiled displays" is currently at the University of California San Diego, with a 14 x 5 array of displays with a total of 287 million pixels.

Want more information? Check out the Texas Advanced Computing Center's website for the whole press release.

Hook 'em horns!

'Stallion' -- World's Highest Resolution Tiled Display for Open Science Deployed...

Image from kanYe West blog [via Engadget]

Thanks to Jonathan L. for the tip.

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  • 2 Posted by d_gunde on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:50PM EDT Report Abuse

    I don't really like toled displays. They should try and removing the casing around each screen to "push" the images together. Then they should have a single very pretty and very expensive screen.

  • 3 Posted by jarich83 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:28PM EDT Report Abuse

    Obviously, you aren't going to stand 2 feet from the display, so the casing around each screen isn't going to be that noticeable...

  • 4 Posted by noseweed619 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:41PM EDT Report Abuse

    It was great....until you did the Hook Em' Horns. Suckish.

  • 5 Posted by ic_mvp on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:22PM EDT Report Abuse

    Go Texas! Everything is better and bigger here!

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