[AG-TECH] Scaleable video wall (fwd)

[Steve Gallo]

Hi Allan,

We have both a tiled display wall and AG node (in the same room)
but haven't really thought of running the AG on the tiled display
wall.  Since the cost of the tiled display was much more than the
AG node, I'm not sure that many sites would be able to go that
route.  Being able to display hi-res images on the AG would be
a bonus, though.

Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Allan Spale
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:53 AM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Scaleable video wall (fwd)
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was just curious to hear if people are thinking about adapting the AG to
> tiled displays using clusters of computers for driving the displays. 
> There is an interesting project called Xdmx that runs on Linux that
> permits a bunch of tiled displays to behave as one cohesive display.  This
> might renew interest in all-Linux AG nodes.  Imaginge running your AG
> session and having some high-end viz apps on the same display (or really
> hi-res photos :) ).  Using Adobe Acrobat as a PowerPoint viewer (assuming
> the PowerPoints were exported to that format), using a Linux-based tiled
> display might be an interesting direction for the AG.
> 
> 
> Allan
> EVL @ UIC
> Research Assistant
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:45:57 -0600
> From: Steve Slocombe <s-slocombe at northwestern.edu>
> To: AG-TECH at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Scaleable video wall
> 
> Hi All,
> Something way out of our budget, but interesting none the less.  A scaleable video wall using flat screens
> with no seams:
> 
> http://electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?SECTION=3700&PRIMID=&FileName=HLAP04.MAY2004.HTML
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>