Visualisation systems

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.

aixCAVE at RWTH Aachen

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.

Tiled display wall at EPFL
Tiled display wall at EPFL