SBU Demonstrates Largest Resolution Immersive Visualization Facility Ever Built
“Reality Deck” designed to assist scientists, engineers and physicians in tackling modern-age problems requiring vast amounts of data
The Reality Deck, constructed with a $1.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and a $600,000 match from Stony Brook University, is the first to break the one billion pixel mark with a resolution five times greater than the second largest in the world. To illustrate the resolution, Project Director, Arie E. Kaufman, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department and Chief Scientist of CEWIT, said that the entire United States population of approximately 300 million people could take a “class photo” from a satellite, and “there would be enough resolution for each person to be depicted in five pixels in color demonstrating the super-high resolution of the facility.”
Reality Deck by the numbers
• 416 high-resolution displays
• 1.5 Billion pixels total (first display to break the one billion pixel mark)
• Five times larger than the second largest display in the world
• Immersive 4-wall layout in a 33’x19’x10’ room with a tiled-display door
• 20-node visualization cluster
• 240 CPU cores - 2.3 TFLOPs performance, 1.2 TB distributed memory
• 80 GPUs - 220 TFLOPs performance, 320 GB distributed memory visualization applications.
Large gigapixel panoramic images – e.g. 45 gigapixel photograph of Dubai, United Arab Emirates;
6 gigapixel Infrared telescope view of the Milky Way
• Large architectural models – e.g. 40 million polygon model visualized at interactive frame rates
• High-performance sound system with 22 speakers and four subwoofers
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