If you dream of multiple monitors, try this on for size: a dozen 30" Dell flat panel displays mounted on one wall, hooked up to one PC. A guy nicknamed "Crazy John" used six NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB graphics cards to light up the wall of monitors, and needed three 1000-watt power supplies to keep the thing humming. Unbelievable.
Wall-O-Monitors project — twelve 30-inch flatscreens mounted [QJ Net]













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whoa! puts my 24" and 15" dells to shame.. i wonder, does he do any Flight Sim gaming?
.......I see But what mobo takes 6 graphics cards? Last I saw was that quad one..is there a..sixtuplet mobo?
how, exactly, does one get six (presumably) PCIe video cards onto one motherboard?
as someone pointed out in the comments on the link: "a projector would be much easier and cheaper.."
My guess would be three quad-head PCI cards, or maybe two of those and a quad AGP.
wow.... absolutely pointless, but wow.....
Yeah - I'd like to see the rig he has running these things. Then I'd like to see the second mortgage he took out on this house to pony up the dosh for 12 dell 30" displays
Why not use 12 projectors, so you've got the massive resolution without the seams between the screens?
Man I want that... Or a way to quickly switch between 12 browser pages... like selecting little tab-like things.. Man either of those would be sweet!
All he's running is Internet Explorer. Does the PC have the power to run anything else simultaneously? I'd love to see 12 blue screens of death :)
Word on the street is that "Crazy John" invented silent velcro.
NASA and other research organizations have been doing things like this for quite some time now, they are often referred to as hyperwalls: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/VisTech/hyperwall/ The Hyperwall displays are powered by not one PC but usually one PC per 1-2 displays, however the PCs are usually configured as a Linux cluster. Like somebody said about using 12 projectors so that you get the resolution without the seams between the screens...rear-projection hyperwalls like this already exist now and have been showcased at events like Supercomputing: http://sc05.supercomputing.org/ Also, these things aren't pointless at all to people who need this kind of resolution — imagine researchers who are looking at super high-resolution satellite imagery, or maybe the results of a high-energy physics simulation rendered by a supercomputer in which the camera angle/perspective is controllable in real-time by the scientist... I do have to say that I'm impressed that this all works from one PC...but you'd run into problems as soon as you want to display a massive high-res animation across all of these displays at some decent frame rate...which is why people like NASA use clusters to do this. To go even further, the clusters that handle the video display are not rendering the actual frames, they are just displaying frames that are actually generated by massive parallel machines/supercomputers... If you want to read more about stuff like this, check out: http://tinyurl.com/rhre7
Neat idea, but I think such a rig is more useful when connected to different computers so you can do different stuff on different screens at the same time. The rig I'm working on right now is for a Dell 24" and two Dell 20" LCDs (got the 20's waiting for the 2407 to be released). Those will run through a 8x8 matrix switch so the screen combination can be changed around and the keyboard mouse runs through an 8-port KVM so only 1 set of those is needed. Should be interesting when it all comes together.
Interesting.. but wouldn't a DLP be better :)
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