Construction of a scalable high resolution parallel display wall and its application in geosciences

doi:10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2009.2.014

Abstract

Abstract:

We presented one method to construct a scalable 4×5 high resolution parallel display matrix system with SAGE and Vizroll techniques, which was driven by one distributed PC-Cluster system. The integration of hardware architecture, system environment and software implementations involved in this deployment, together with the graphic and color calibration, were addressed in detail. Several applications of applying this high resolution parallel visualization system to geoscience community proved the feasibility and scalability of this cyberinfrastructure construction scenario.

Key words: high resolution display wall, SAGE, VizRoll, graphic and color calibration

CLC Number:

P315.8

CHEN Shao-lin, ZHANG Huai, CHEN Shi, SHI Yao-lin. Construction of a scalable high resolution parallel display wall and its application in geosciences[J]. , 2009, 26(2): 243-250.

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