NVIDIA Quadro® FX3000G Graphics Board by PNY Powers One of The Largest
Passive Stereoscopic Tiled Wall Displays in North America
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Purdue University's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization has installed one of the largest known passive stereoscopic tiled wall displays in the United States. Advanced Clustering Technologies worked with Purdue's Envision Center staff to develop this cluster which includes a 13 node dual Xeon cluster using Mellanox technology 4X Infiniband HBC's, the Mellanox MTS24, 24 port switch for data transfer and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G by PNY Technologies to drive the 12' x 7' rear projected tiled wall.
"We have been very pleased with the performance we see from the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G by PNY boards on the tiled wall, which is why we will use the FX 3000G boards to drive our new FLEX™" - Laura Arns, Visualization and Computer Graphics Application Engineer Envision Center for Data Perceptualization Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP)
"The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G by PNY was selected because of its Framelock/Genlock capabilities. Framelock between the tiles is important to ensure that they all redraw the scene at the same time. This makes the wall appear as a single cohesive display rather than a set of independent "blocks". The Genlock signal allows us to do this in hardware as well. We have been very pleased with the performance we see from the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G by PNY boards on the tiled wall, which is why we will use the FX 3000G boards to drive our new FLEX™ " said Laura Arns.
The new FLEX™ environment, built by Fakespace Systems Inc., enables design, engineering and research teams to collaborate on a broad range of projects including simulation of interplanetary exploration, storm system analysis, and virtual walk-throughs of building models prior to their construction. It is the world's first reconfigurable immersive visualization system that includes the use of both active and passive stereoscopic technology and a flush-mounted floor. Active stereo technology produces the highest quality stereoscopic viewing in an enclosed space. According to Arns, "in order to keep all four walls synchronized when alternating between left eye and right eye images, we wanted a hardware Genlock signal between the graphics cards. The NVIDIA Quadro" FX3000G by PNY Technologies is one of only a very small number of "off the shelf" professional graphics boards which offer this feature."
The Envision Center is a 5,600-square-foot theater that can seat up to fifty people for review of large-scale, tera-byte sized computer-generated models.
About Purdue University's Envision Center
Purdue University's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization is organized under Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) and serves the computational visualization needs of the greater Purdue community. The mission of the Envision Center for Data Perceptualization is to serve, support, and collaborate with faculty, students, and industry to be a leader in scientific visualization and human computer interaction through learning, discovery, and engagement.
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About PNY Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1985, PNY Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of its Verto®-brand consumer graphics cards and NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY professional graphics boards. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash memory, flash peripherals, USB drives and digital entertainment products. Its memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains facilities in North America (Santa Clara, Calif. and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany) and Asia (Taiwan). For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.pny.com.
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