Aug 22 2007NASA's Cyberwall Is Underpowered
NASA, an organization never to be outdone with the latest and greatest, has constructed a cyberwall at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. What is a cyberwall you ask?
The wall has 49 screens, each of which is driven by its own Dual 2 Ghz AMD Opteron processor with nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4600. In addition, with 100 gigabyte of disk space and one gigabyte of RAM per node, the system has approximately five terabytes of aggregate disk space, and 50 gigabyte of aggregate RAM. The wall has over 64 Million Pixels, over 55 Square Feet of Viewing Surface, and 100Gb/s of visual Output.
Now I'm not totally sure what all that means because I still use a Commodore 64 for all my computing, but I'm pretty confident what they're saying is that the wall can see into the future.
One more of the coolest dude ever pointing at a faulty monitor after the jump.
NASA's Cyberwall Is Underpowered [newlaunches]
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Reader Comments
1. Trepaning.com - August 22, 2007 12:52 PM
The Commodore 64 still has the best games!
2. KRiPPeR - August 22, 2007 1:12 PM
I don't get it... why a GeForce 4?
3. Superevil - August 22, 2007 1:13 PM
eh...I've seen bigger.
4. nominus - August 22, 2007 1:22 PM
Dude, shedder had that wall in the original ninja turtles movie. I assume it sucks, cuz all he did was throw a knife at it. I'm not going to buy one of these.
5. Jeeze - August 22, 2007 1:24 PM
Typo! c'mon man...the quality doesn't have to sink THAT much with new writers. Especially considering that what #4 had to say was funnier than the actual blog post.
6. KC - August 22, 2007 1:35 PM
What is a Cyperwall?
7. Dondon - August 22, 2007 1:54 PM
And at night, the janitor uses it to watch porn.
8. lulu - August 22, 2007 1:54 PM
yeah, what the hell is the point of this thing? is it just a giant computer?
9. Andrew Milsted - August 22, 2007 3:28 PM
You know that the University of California have had a bigger one for at least a year
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
10. Dan - August 22, 2007 5:48 PM
All that power, money and gay shirt material and they still can't get rid of the gaps between the screens. NASA come on!!
11. Joe Melnick - August 22, 2007 10:27 PM
Why not just get a really good LCD projector and have a screen twice as big without those stupid lines?
Also, where did they find anyone still making ti4600 video cards? ebay?