posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:54 AM by wsoftware

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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# COOL: Twelve 30 Inc 3007WFP's running on 6 GeForce 7900 and on a 3000Watt system! @ Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:01 AM

If playing Quake III on 24 Monitors wasnt enough, someone's gone nuts with Dell's new 30" LCD Beast 3007WFP...

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