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NASA hyperwall-2

NASA hyperwall-2 Specifications
Display: 128 LCD Monitors
Pixels: 1 Billion
Size: 23′ x 10′
GPU: 128 GPUs
CPU: 1024 CPU Cores, 74 Teraflops
Storage: 475 Terabytes

Image source: Gizmodo
NASA’s hyperwall-2 is a huge improvement over its original 49-screen hyperwall that was developed just 6 years ago in 2002 by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) visualization team. NASA’s hypwerwall-2 almost triples the number [...]

NHK and JAXA 720p Video of the Moon

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) announced the successful capture of high-definition video of the Moon by KAGUYA, the lunar explorer that was launched into orbit at an altitude of about 100km on October 18, 2007 (JST). Onboard the KAGUYA is a high definition TV (HDTV) and this marks [...]