NASA’s 128-screen hyperwall-2 makes for world's highest-res display

We’ve seen all sorts widescreen displays around; still NASA has managed to create the world’s highest resolution widescreen display, in event putting all the others face up against the wall. Created by NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division to display images from the NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the 128-monitor hyperwall-2 with 23ft-wide LCD array is the world's highest-resolution display system efficiently rendering quarter-of-a-billion-pixels. This amazing display system draws power from 128 GPUs with 1,024 processor cores, ‘running at speeds of up to 74 teraflops - that's 74 trillion calculations per second.’

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