Most Powerful Visualisation System Ever Is Faster than 600 Consoles

What you see here is not a simple array of LCD displays. This is NASA’s hyperwall-2, the world’s highest resolution visualisation system. At 23 by 10 feet wide, hyperwall-2 uses 128 screens driven by 128 graphic processing units with a total of 1,024 processor cores capable of displaying quarter billion-pixel graphics. That’s 74 teraflops of power–the number-crunching capacity of six hundred last-generation consoles– accessing 475 terabytes of dat, what scientists and Led Zeppelin technically classify as “a whooping whole lotta love.” Instead of gaming, however, this massive display will be used for more mundane things like, you know, black holes or saving lives.