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Table 2 Hiperwall visualization system hardware components and specifications as shown in Fig. 3

From: The Hiperwall tiled-display wall system for Big-Data research

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Hiperwall visualization system hardware components and specifications

Figure 3.F.1

Hiperwall Visualization Cluster (1 Control and 8 Display Nodes)

A. Rack-Mounted Control and Display Nodes 9 Dell Optiplex 7010 PCs on a 40U Rack (1 Control Node and 8 Display Nodes) Specs for each node: 3rd Gen Intel Core 3.4 GHz i7–3770 Processor; 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM; 1 GB RAM AMD RADEON HD 7570 Graphics Card; 500 GB Hard Drive (Total RAM: 9 GB; Total Hard Drive Space of 4.5 TB). Operating System: Windows 7 (64-bit)

B. Secondary Control Node (Not Shown in Figure 3) Dell Latitude 10 Tablet. Specs: 1.8 GHz Z2760 Intel Atom processor; 2 GB RAM; 533 MHz Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Graphics Card; 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM RAM; 64 GB Hard Drive. Operating System: Windows 8 Pro (32-bit)

Figure 3.F.2

1 Gbps 24-port Network Switch 1U Rack-Mount Dell 1 Gbps 24-Port PowerConnect 2824 Switch

Figure 3.F.3

Audio Digital Signal Processor Biamp Nexia-CS-10 mic/line inputs and 6 mic/line outputs

Figure 3.F.4

Audio Power Amplifier 2U Rack-Mount TOA 900 Series-II P-912MK2

Figure 3.F.5

Ceiling Speakers 6 Ceiling-Mounted Speakers, Atlas Sound FAP62T (Strategy-II series) 6″, 32W

Figure 3.F.6

Display Wall 8 commercial-brand 55″ Samsung LED (backlit) HDTV (Model UD55C). Left/Top Bezel Size = 3.7 mm and Right/Bottom Bezel Size = 1.8 mm. Display Wall Layout: \(4\times 2\); Total resolution (\(4\times1920\)) \(\times\) (\(2\times 1080) = 7680\times 2160\) (16.5 MP)

Display Wall Dimensions: Width = 16 ft (4.9 m) and Height = 4.5 ft (1.4 m); Bezel-to-Bezel Size = 0.2''. (5.5 mm)

Connection from Control/Display nodes to display wall: HDMI

Figure 3.F.7

Sender/Streamer Nodes (9 Data Analysis Workstations)

9 Dell T5600 Workstations each connected to three 24″ monitors

Specs for each Workstation: Each Node has a Dual-Four Core 3.3 GHz Xeon E5–2643 processor; 64 GB DDR3 RDIMM RAM; \(2\, \text{GB}\times 2\, \text{GB}\) RAM NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Cards; two CUDA-768 cores (1536 CUDA cores) per workstation; 4 TB Hard Drive (Total RAM: 576 GB; Total Hard Drive Space: 36 TB). Operating System: Dual-Boot Windows 7 (64 bit) and Scientific Linux 6.4