Digital Media

CHPC will soon expand its catalog of Digital Media services to include an exciting piece of cutting-edge technology: a new computational cluster designed specifically for visualization tasks.

Every piece of the "visualization cluster" -- including the room in which it will be housed -- was chosen with the visual designer in mind.

The Cluster

10 dual-AMD Opteron(tm) based machines will be clustered using Myrinet technology. Each machine will be equipped with its own NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 graphics card. Applications that utilize OpenGL will be supported.

A clustering video technology named Chromium will deliver the most intriguing piece of the puzzle: it will intercept local video, render "left eye" and "right eye" points-of-view, then send out the new video streams to be displayed, all in real time.

The Room

Video will be displayed by 18 Sanyo PLC-XT11 LCD XGA multimedia projectors, 2 per cluster node. Each pair of projectors will display oppositely polarized "left eye" and "right eye" renderings of images and video. The two renderings will be overlaid on a rear-projection video wall, creating a "stereo" image containing both points-of-view, one on top of the other. Using special glasses, each of your eyes will "pull" the appropriate overlay out of the display, transforming the double-vision blur of the stereo image into high definition 3D.

A room behind the rear-projection video wall will house the cluster and projectors. This will not only help in keeping the room clear but will also significantly reduce the amount of computer and projector noise.

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