Thursday, March 16, 2006 - Posts

PIPE DREAM: Quake 3 on 24 monitors (nope not a 24inch, 24 monitors!)

Probably just a nerdy dream (for someone like Anshuman!) but someone has actually managed to get Quake III running on 24 monitors at once at... get this... 10240 x 3072 resolution at 15-30 FPS...

The system is driven by 12 linux servers (2 monitors per server) using Distributed Multihead X (DMX) and Chromium. Chromium distributes the OpenGL rendering from the head node to all of the servers.
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