Stallion
One of the Highest Resolution Tiled-Displays in the World.
The cluster provides users with the ability to perform visualizations on a large 6x3 tiled display of Samsung 8K monitors: an aggregate resolution of 597 megapixels. This configuration allows for an exploration of visualizations at an extremely high level of detail and quality compared to a typical moderate pixel count projector.
Software developed by TACC staff, such as DisplayCluster and Massive Pixel Environment (MPE) allow the distributed display to be controlled easily. The cluster allows users access to over 74GB of graphics memory, 1.28TB of system memory, 19TB aggregate local disk storage, and 232 processing cores.
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System Specifications
Stallion's configuration enables the processing of datasets at massive scale, and the interactive visualization of substantial geometries. A large, shared file system is available to enable the storage of terascale size datasets.
Display
Monitors | 18x Samsung 8k 65” QLED |
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Resolution | 597 Mpixel (46080 x 12960) |
Head Nodes
Processors | 2x Intel Sandy Bridge 2687W |
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Cores/Node | 8 |
Clock Rate | 3.1Ghz |
Operating System | CentOS 6 |
Memory/Node | 128GB DDR-3 |
Local Disk | 1TB |
Network | Dell PowerVault NX3100 36TB Disk Space |
Render Nodes
Processors | 36x Intel Sandy Bridge 2667W |
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Cores/Node | 6 |
Clock Rate | 2.9Ghz |
Operating System | CentOS 6 |
Memory/Node | 64GB DDR-3 (1.15TB aggregate) |
Local Disk/Node | 64GB DDR-3 (1.15TB aggregate) |
User Guide
Access full documentation on system architecture, software, new & advanced user information, best practices, and troubleshooting.
Stallion User GuideStallion White Paper
For more information about development, read Stallion’s White Paper: A Practical Guide to Large Tiled Displays.
Stallion White PaperMassive Pixel Environment (MPE)
A Processing library for easily extending sketches to distributed display environments.
DisplayCluster
A software environment for interactively driving large-scale tiled displays.