CalREN-XD/HPR WORKSHOP 2008 > Demonstrations

TITLE:

Highly Interactive Distance Agnostic Very-Large Tiled Display Collaboration

CONTACT:

Falko Kuester and Stephen Jenks • University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and University of California, Irvine (UCI) and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)
fkuester@ucsd.edu and sjenks@uci.edu

COLLABORATORS:

Falko Kuester, UCSD/Calit2

Stephen Jenks, UCI/Calit2

PROJECT URLS:

http://vis.ucsd.edu/~cglx/ • http://hiperwall.calit2.uci.edu/ • http://vis.ucsd.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Research_Projects:_HIPerSpace

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

CalREN XD is used to connect two tiled display walls, the HIPerWall at UCI and the HIPerSpace at UCSD (with a combined resolution of nearly half a billion pixels), running interactive scientific visualization applications. UDP and multicast are used to communicate efficiently between the walls. Highly interactive visualizations, with the ability to control remote applications in real time, and bidirectional video streaming, shall be demonstrated. The demo also shows that the Cross-Platform Cluster Graphics Library (CGLX) system supports heterogeneous hardware, network capabilities, and operating systems, and is distance agnostic (i.e., a control node can control both local content and remote content simultaneously).