Visualisation Cluster

The current Visualisation Cluster is the driving force behind the Reality Cube and the Reality Theatre. The cluster consists of 8 high-end HP workstations (xw8600) in a master-slave setup:
- The master node is used for user input
- Each slave node delivers 3D images to one projector in the Reality Cube or Reality Theatre
- Special genlocking hardware is used to synchronize the images produced by the nodes.
- One of the machines is running Windows (the others all use Linux) to produce a single giant desktop.
The previous Visualisation Cluster has been in use since 2005 and consisted of 5 HP9300 workstations. This has gradually replaced the SGI Onyx3400.
Specifications
All nodes in the Visualisation Cluster have the following specifications:

- HP xw8600 workstation
- Quad Xeon 3.0 GHz
- 2 GB memory
- Nvidia QuadroFX5800 graphics card (each with 4GB of onboard memory) with additional genlock board
- 1Gb/s network interface to shared file server
Last modified: | 02 October 2015 10.24 p.m. |