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TI: GeoWall-2 : a Scalable Display System for the Geosciences
AU: * Leigh, J
EM: spiff@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 152, 1120 SEO, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607 United States
AU: Morin, P
EM: lpaul@umn.edu
AF: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55455 United States
AU: Johnson, A
EM: aej@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 152, 1120 SEO, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607 United States
AU: DeFanti, T A
EM: tom@uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 152, 1120 SEO, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607 United States
AU: Brown, M
EM: maxine@uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 152, 1120 SEO, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607 United States
AU: Sandin, D
EM: dan@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, MC 152, 1120 SEO, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607 United States
AU: Rack, F
EM: frack@joiscience.org
AF: Joint Oceanographic Institutions, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-2102 United States
AU: Vernon, F
EM: flvernon@ucsd.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Orcutt, J
EM: jorcutt@igpp.ucsd.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Davis, B
EM: bdavis@usgs.gov
AF: United States Geological Survey, EROS Data Center, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 United States
AU: van Keken, P
EM: keken@umich.edu
AF: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 C. C. Little Building, 425 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063 United States
AU: Smarr, L
EM: lsmarr@ucsd.edu
AF: California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego, EBU1, 7th Floor 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0405
AB: The first generation of the GeoWall was targeted at providing affordable 3D stereoscopic visualization of small- to modest-sized Geoscience datasets. Continuing the trend to take advantage of the commodity computing, GeoWall-2 is designed to cost-effectively serve Geoscience applications that require greater display resolution and visualization capacity. The full GeoWall-2 consists of 15 LCD panels tiled in a 5x3 array comprising a total resolution of 8000x3600 pixels. Each LCD panel is driven by a single PC with a high-end graphics card such as Nvidia's Quadro FX3000, at least 250GBytes of disk space, 2.5-3GHz CPU, and Gigabit Ethernet networking. The GeoWall-2 is scalable in that smaller or even larger versions can be built by adjusting the number of LCDs and computers. Applications of the GeoWall-2 include the visualization of large remote sensing, volume rendering imagery, mapping, seismic interpretation, museum exhibits and other applications that require a large collaborative screen area. GeoWall-2 was developed with support from the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.
UR: http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/optiputer/
DE: 0902 Computational methods, seismic
DE: 0930 Oceanic structures
DE: 0933 Remote sensing
DE: 1694 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7207 Core and mantle
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting