The HPAC Platform currently provides different visualisation systems at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and at EPFL in Geneva, Switzerland. If you would like to visit these sites for using the systems, please use our request form to let us know.
aixCAVE
RWTH provides a fully immersive visualisation environment in the form of a CAVE installation. The aixCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality environment.
| Screens | Five screens: Rear projection on 4 walls 1 floor projection with 24 HD active stereo projectors |
| Walls | 5.25 m x 3.30 m 4 projectors each Acrylic screens with special coating for highest brightness uniformity |
| Floor | 5.25 m x 5.25 m 8 projectors Acrylic screens with special coating on glass 6.5 cm thickness |
| Projectors | Barco Galaxy NW12: Three-chip DLP Resolution W-UXGA 1920×1200 12000 ANSI lumen Passive to active stereo conversion at 120 Hz |
| Edges | Edge blending for seamless alignment of projectors on each screen |
| Pixel distance | 1.5 mm |
| Stereo | Radio-based active stereo NVIDIA 3DVision Pro shuttering at 120 Hz |
| Tracking | ART IR-optical tracking with 8 cameras |
| More information | http://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/cms/IT-Center/Forschung-Projekte/Virtuelle-Realitaet/Infrastruktur/~fgqa/aixCAVE/?lidx=1 |
Tiled display walls
EPFL runs a thin-bezel, high-resolution display wall at Geneva. The wall consists of 4 x 3 55’’ displays, which form a 10 m2 display area with 7 mm bezels. Multi-touch input provides easy to use interaction with windows and content on the wall. It is driven by a single workstation using three NVIDIA GTX 980 GPUs, two Intel Xeon E5 CPUs (2 x 12 cores at 2.3 GHz) and 64 GB RAM.
Another tiled display wall is hosted at RWTH as a reference system of the system at EPFL. The display wall at RWTH consists of 6 full HD screens of 46’’ size. It is driven by a 7-node cluster (1 master and 6 slaves) each equipped with an Intel Xeon E5 CPU (4 cores at 3.7 GHz), 16 GB RAM, and 1 NVIDIA GTX 780Ti GPU each.
