Case Study: University of California San Diego achieves ultra-high-resolution, immersive collaboration with NEC Display Solutions video walls

University of California at San Diego pushes their computers to the max with help from NEC video walls

The University of California San Diego needed to foster collaboration and push the limits of its computer-cluster visualization capabilities for Calit2’s OptIPortable projects. To support simultaneous video conferencing and visualization of very large datasets, UCSD partnered with NEC Display Solutions, using NEC X461UN and X462UN ultra-narrow-bezel LCDs (and planning X551UNs) to build wall-sized, high-resolution video walls.

NEC Display Solutions supplied stacked X461UN and X462UN panels to create portable tiled video walls—examples include a 4x4 wall of 16 X461UNs, a 4x10 wall of 40 X461UNs, and a 2x16 “Vroom” module made from 32 X462UNs (a 14'×14' immersive booth). The NEC deployments delivered near-seamless imagery, reliability and brightness, enabling deeper real-time collaboration, global deployments (including KAUST and SIGGRAPH ’11) and a measurable expansion of UCSD’s visualization and conferencing capabilities.

University of California San Diego

Thomas A. DeFanti

Director of Visualization for Calit2