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Nasa’s Hyperwall-2, which is housed in the Ames Research Centre, is currently the 2nd highest resolution screen in the world. It has been surpassed by a hyperwall created in UCSD which is reported to be as much as 10% larger than Nasa’s Hyperwall-2.

Hyperwall-2 features:

• : Colfax International
• 128-screen tiled LCD wall arranged in 8x16 configuration; measures 23-ft. wide by 10-ft. high
• 128 nodes
  • 2 quad-core AMD Opteron™ 2354 (Barcelona) processors per node
  • Processor speed: 2.2 GHz
  • Cache: 2 MB for 4 cores
  • Memory type: DDR2 registered DIMMs
  • 2 GB per core; 16 GB per node
• 9 Tflop/s peak
• Total cores: 1,024 Opteron processor cores
• Total memory: 208 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory
• 128 Nvidia® GeForce® 480 GTX graphics processing units
  • Peak processing power: 128 Tflop/s
• Data storage capacity: 1.5 PB