1.2. Example Hardware Setups

1.2. Example Hardware Setups
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The key for CoreWall is large screens and a good graphics card. We would suggest eith the Dell or Apple 30" LCD monitors. And in order to drive each 30" monitor, you will need graphics cards with a "dual-link" DVI port. If you intend to use 2 30" monitors, then you will need "dual-dual-link" ports. Possible selections (but may not limite to) are ATI Radeon X1900 XT and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 cards. Following are some CoreWall setups out there. Each contact is listed. If you need more information please contact each indiviuals or Julian Yu-Chung Chen <julian at evl.uic.edu>.

1.2.1. ANDRILL - Antarctica Geological Drilling

ANDRILL's CoreWall Hardware Spec: an Apple Mac Pro with nVidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card. 2 30" Apple Cinema Displays. Contact: Josh Reed <jareed at andrill.org>

Figure 1.1. ANDRILL CoreWall Setup

1.2.2. Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

EVL's CoreWall Hardware Spec: a Dell Pentium 4 XPS PC with 3 PCI nVidia Quadro FX500 graphics cards. 5 20" ViewSonic LCD Displays. Contact: Julian Yu-Chung Chen<julian at evl.uic.edu>

Figure 1.2. EVL CoreWall Setup

1.2.3. National Lacustrine Core Repository, University of Minnesota

LacCore's CoreWall Hardware Spec: a PC (customiz-built Reason / Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, 2.21GHz, 3.25G RAM, 1TB HD) with NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX (512MB RAM). 1 30" Dell LCD Display. Contact: Anders Noren <noren021 at umn.edu>

Figure 1.3. LacCore CoreWall Setup

1.2.4. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Earth Institute at Columbia University

LDEO's CoreWall Hardware Spec: a Mac Pro with 4 nVidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics cards. 6 Apple 23" Cinema Displays. More Information Contact: Sean Higgins <sean at ldeo.columbia.edu>

Figure 1.4. LDEO CoreWall Setup