Bob La Quey wrote: > On 8/23/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wonder when these displays will be available at frys? >> http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-07HIPerSpaceDR-.asp >> >> Maybe UCSD has open houses? (.. housen? hice?) >> >> Regards, >> ..jim > > Is there something that I really do not get here? > > I can understand that "clusters of low cost displays" > may well be a path toward ultra high resolution displays, > > But ... > > Other than spending a ton of money what is worthy of > research here? Are there really any architectural or > serious theoretical issues about how to do this? I > suppose this will impress the Bigfoots and thus is > important for that reason. > > On the surface this just looks to me like "Gee whiz" > science of very little real importance. Are they not > simply building a "white elephant" that will be completely > obsolete in a few years?
You may, of course, be right... ..but.. I am willing to believe that there are [some] justifications. Isn't visualization one of the big problems with large-scale modeling problems (like weather). And, I bet the devil-in-the-details problems add some long-term engineering benefits. Your question surely seems appropriate, and while I hope that that question was asked in the NSF funding process, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some razzle-dazzle(!) involved in selling the idea. Then too, maybe Nvidia and/or Apple underwrote some costs? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
