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- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -8/+71But can it play Crysis using the 128 GPUs? That's what we really want to know.
- jotate, on 06/27/2008, -5/+53Why would you make something that incredibly bad ass and not also engineer a gridless 23'x10' screen?
Furthermore, why are they dicking around with display when they should be developing new propulsion systems? - CptGreencoat, on 06/27/2008, -1/+36I bet the janitor watches porn on it when the offices are closed.
- mordeci, on 06/27/2008, -1/+26I have 2 of these for gaming. Solitaire looks good, Minesweeper is amazing.
- Tyrghast, on 06/27/2008, -1/+15Since when have consoles become a benchmark for measuring computing power?
- imontoya, on 06/27/2008, -0/+12Although cost was likely a factor, I also think that the outside vendor who helped them put it all together (i.e. the integrator) could have done a better job. They will quickly grow tired of looking at those 1" or more (2.5 -3.0 cm) of black bars between the screens.
These off the shelf monitors are easily mounted by their VESA mounts on the back and the integrator likely didn't want to re-engineer a new mounting system in order to mount them without their plastic bezels. There was probably warranty issues too, although with that many monitors, if I was the integrator, I'd try to work a deal with the factory to ship units without the bezel and warranty them for this application. Notice how none of the individual vendors of the monitors, GPU or processor supplier got any press coverage. They weren't involved, but could have been, and might have been able to offset some costs to enable the integrator to engineer a better wall mounting system without the bezels. - Skysurfer27, on 06/27/2008, -3/+14No, because Crytek spent all their time bitching about people "pirating" their game instead of ported it to Linux.
- zeldor, on 06/27/2008, -1/+11a: cost, individual monitors were a lot (many cubic *****) cheaper then a seamless one.
granted less cool.
2: this is NASA's computer division, not their propulsion division. new engines are being worked on elsewhere. - SitPoMk, on 06/27/2008, -5/+12Well I guess I'll say it in advance. Since it's bound to come up.
These comments suck - yohnstoppable, on 06/27/2008, -1/+8More like "who wants to buy an ok shooter, when ***** COD4 and TF2 are all time greats".
- driedcod, on 06/27/2008, -1/+7phreeooow. Now that's what I call a screen. Not one to stand infront of when you've got a bad hangover...
- houndeyex, on 06/27/2008, -0/+6Who wants to buy a game they can't run?
- sandiegodude, on 06/27/2008, -1/+7I love how they're touting this amazing screen with such huge abilities... And all they have to display for the pictures is...
A satellite view of the world and a screensaver. Go NASA! - Xebozone, on 06/27/2008, -1/+6But will it blend?
- zavats, on 06/27/2008, -1/+6Wide screen TV government style - good to know where my taxes go.
- krnldmp, on 06/27/2008, -1/+6I hope they only run it when they really need to because that bitch probably takes about 100 kiloWatts just to idle.
- bbqsalad, on 06/27/2008, -2/+6I just teraflopped in my pants
- bwdd, on 06/27/2008, -0/+4"Instead of gaming, however, this massive display will be used for more mundane things like, you know, black holes or saving lives."
It will be used for black holes?
To feed them? - scoottie, on 06/27/2008, -2/+6The human brain .... oh guess not
- cwright213, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3That sucks. looks like something a home owner would do......with crap loads of money
- fLUx1337, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3"That's 74 teraflops of power—the number-crunching capacity of six hundred last-generation consoles"
Which equals around 18 current consoles. Pretty cool and still very powerful though... - yokozuka, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4With that teraflopping I wouldn't see why not. But yeah, screw black holes :-) I would like to see that too.
- djbon2112, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3I agree with yohnstoppable: the game isn't revolutionary. Sure, the ENGINE is (graphics, physics, etc.) but the gameplay is just average. I wouldn't pay for it frankly, but (a) I run Linux, and (b) my computer couldn't DREAM of playing it at any decent settings (and it's a completely pimped-out Dell Vostro 1700 with an 8600M GT).
- eqtitan, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4NASA - "Hi, I'm XXXXXX with NASA and were looking to build the biggest wall of porn this side of that rock called Pluto."
Sales - "Ok, what kind of setup are you looking for?"
NASA - "Hey, bob. How many monitors you think we need to my her tit's the size of Jupiter?"
Bob - "I dunno like 128, that would give us a 23' x 10' wall of spank-o-vision"
NASA - "128 of your largest LCD monitors, oh and 128 of your best graphics processing units."
Sales - "Ok, how would you like to pay for your order?"
NASA - "Tax payer dollars please" - Gutterpunk, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2But what is your point?
Different machines to address different markets. If you don't like console gaming, just don't play console games. But comes Saturday night with some friends, they don't want to sit around in a computer room, watching my 22" PC screen to see me play COD4, they want me to get Rock Band or Brain Academy out and play in the living room.
Plus, if I want to play online with someone who doesn't give a ***** about 4850 that and 1gB this, he can just buy a 360 and be playing with me in the next hour. Most people around you are computer agnostic, they don't want to ***** around trying to see if game X works on their PC, and I don't want to be the one on the phone telling them to read me the freaking requirement on the side of the game.
Try to see pass what is only good for you, you'll only be a better man for it
Beside, this is a thread about Nasa tech. wtf did you feel the need to spout about your pc gaming preferences? - graemee, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2I own COD4 & TF2 - via Orange Box, I don't own Crysis - because of it's way too high requirements.
- slifty, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2You don't get to use the same pun twice, it makes for nasaty conversation.
- Armstrong3, on 06/27/2008, -1/+374 teraflops > 1.21 gigawatts?
- Mushroonaut, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Yeah, the specs are incredible, but that ugly grid sucks!
- flytronix, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2still can't divide by zero
- localzuk, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3Why didn't they remove the panels from their casing and make a custom frame to hold them? That black grid really will detract from the usefulness of the screen in my view.
- Betrayer, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3DATED TECHNOLOGY..
the new gtx 280 can do 1 teraflop... so 3 way sli its 3 teraflops... so in theory you could build this with 25 SLI machines instead of the 1000 or so computers they use now to make the 75 Tflop level.
5 more years until i can afford to turn my living room into a holodeck and run around in google maps realtime...YAY! - leerayIG88, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2om nom nom nom
- buba1243, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3You forgot the big advantages for console gaming, easy to use and hard to cheat. Hidden costs are only applicable to xbox 360 not to ps33. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse hooked up to my ps3. It loads quick for when I want to play a game or watch a movie. It also has an option straight from the main menu called load other OS.
Both have there places computers are more of a general tool although the line between them is getting smaller. - grantmoore3d, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Sooo... am I the only one not impressed by this?
- pmclinn, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1This is the kind of thing you build and then some asks, "can we watch youtube videos on this?"
- spxiii, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1People at NASA tend to work erratic hours so it has to remain on at all times. By "erratic hours" I mean 10:30a to 3:00p, Monday through Thursday. They also leave it on over their six week vacations because it takes too long to boot.
- DigitalPioneer, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1OK, I'll take one.
- xNIBx, on 06/28/2008, -0/+1Ps3 games still cost 20$ more than pc games. So if you buy 5 games a year for 4 years, that's 400$ extra cost. So 400$ the console + 400$ the extra game cost = 800$. For that amount of money you can build an entire new pc with quad core cpu, 4gB ram, 500gB hard disk(or 1tB) and a kick ass graphic card.
And you can watch movies/blurays on the pc too(and a lot more formats). - jo21, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1more like 2.08
- FredFredrickson, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1To create them!
- spxiii, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1It's used for managers to impress their managers.
- DraxusD, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1That's why we have LAN parties. On a console your group size is usually limited to 4 times the number of TV's you have, and the more people per TV the ***** the gameplay gets.
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1In heaven you dont play a game, you are the game....
- SubKamran, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Damn it, that's the first thing I thought of, too.
- spxiii, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Going by my experience with NASA, I'd say an intern assembled it. The same thing was done at GRC a while back, only it was a massive 3x3 matrix and now I feel like a total loser for having worked on it.
- blacklilyninja, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1I've seen Dread Zepplin 4 times. Met Tortelvis backstage once. So awesome. He made us all do "the Claw" with him
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