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Hiperwall Holiday Fun

An occasional moment of fun in the Calit2 Visualization Lab as the Hiperwall team checks out video games on the Hiperwall system:

Dr. Sung-Jin Kim brought a Playstation 3 and his guitar to play Rocksmith. The video shows other games, including Battlefield 3 and Tetris. I can be seen briefly playing a co-op game . . . → Read More: Hiperwall Holiday Fun

New Hiperwall version significantly enhances functionality

Hiperwall Inc. today announced the new version 2.0 of the Hiperwall display wall software. The new version significantly enhances functionality of existing components and adds two new ones that are very powerful. See the announcement or the Enhancements list for an overview of what is new, but I’ll mention a few of the new features/capabilities and . . . → Read More: New Hiperwall version significantly enhances functionality

Hiperwall Features and Software Development

Now that we have released a maintenance update to our third software release and are closing in on our fourth release (likely this Summer), I’ll comment on how our development has changed and how we focus on what to develop and when.

At the start of 2007, the HIPerWall software primarily consisted of two programs: the original . . . → Read More: Hiperwall Features and Software Development

On the origins of the Hiperwall name

HIPerWall Mini Desktop Preview

Hiperwall is the product derived from HIPerWall the research project. NASA and Apple both have Hyperwall systems, which are unrelated to each other and unrelated to Hiperwall. . . . → Read More: On the origins of the Hiperwall name

UCI EECS Colloquium Talk 2010

I will present a talk on “Hiperwall: From Research Project to Product” at the UCI EECS Colloquium at 5PM on Wednesday, Nov. 10, in McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium.

The official announcement is here.

I made minor updates on 10/10, so be sure to get the updated presentation (below).

The presentation is Colloquium Presentation . . . → Read More: UCI EECS Colloquium Talk 2010

NEC Display Solutions Partners with Hiperwall

NEC Display Solutions announced today that they are partnering with Hiperwall for our software to power high-resolution display walls (sorry, I can’t stand the more limiting term “video walls”).

For more information, read their . . . → Read More: NEC Display Solutions Partners with Hiperwall

The History of HIPerWall:The Research Software (2005-2006)

TileViewer in use on HIPerWall

The HIPerWall system was a pretty impressive collection of hardware for 2005, with 50 processors (more were added later), 50 GB of RAM, more that 10 TB of storage (we got a gift of 5TB worth of drives for our RAID system from Western Digital), and 50 of the nicest monitors available, but it was the . . . → Read More: The History of HIPerWall:The Research Software (2005-2006)

Added Hiperwall Description

I added a description . . . → Read More: Added Hiperwall Description

New bio

I added a new biographical summary to the “About me” page. It covers my work at Northrop Grumman, UCI, and . . . → Read More: New bio

The History of HIPerWall:Hardware and Architecture

Once we won the NSF grant to develop HIPerWall, we had to decide the exact details of the hardware to purchase and nail down the hardware and software architecture. We knew that we wanted high-resolution flat panel monitors driven by powerful computers connected via a Gigabit Ethernet switch. We also knew that we did not want . . . → Read More: The History of HIPerWall:Hardware and Architecture