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check out The size of This ... er monitor

 

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/UnityiDome/

 

its BIG and ROUND, must be nice

 

excerpt below

 

Unity and the iDome

 

Written by Paul Bourke

June 2008

 

 

Example 1

 

It is relatively easy to argue that there should be a gaming advantage if, like in real life, our peripheral vision is engaged. Not only does this give us a heightened sense of "being there" but it also engages our strong motion cues in a peripheral region. In the same way as we evolved to have a wide peripheral vision to help us detect predators, this peripheral vision can assist in early detection of dangers in a FPS game. The iDome allows one to play with our full peripheral vision engaged, both horizontally and vertically.

In order to demonstrate the use of Unity within the iDome, the standard demo that comes with Unity Pro is modified to support the warped fisheye images required for the iDome. The technique can of course be applied to any Unity based application.

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OK, let me break out the e-peen and beat you all:

 

Sun Constellation Linux Cluster

 

 

System Name: Ranger

Operating System: Linux

Number of Nodes: 3,936

Number of Processing Cores: 62,976

Total Memory: 123TB

Peak Performance: 504TFlops

Total Disk: 1.73PB (shared)

31.4TB (local)

 

 

 

I WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Linux Cluster

 

 

System Name: Roadrunner

Operating System: Linux

Number of Nodes: 3,060

Number of Processing Cores: 122,400

Total Memory: 98TB

Peak Performance: 1.026 PFlops

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U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Linux Cluster

 

 

System Name: Roadrunner

Operating System: Linux

Number of Nodes: 3,060

Number of Processing Cores: 122,400

Total Memory: 98TB

Peak Performance: 1.026 PFlops

 

Still think my flipflops are good value for money..

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Nar, it's a rip-off! 504 pairs...let's say 1000 individual flops for $1000 ($1 per flop) compared to 1,026,000,000,000,000 individual flops for $100,000,000 ($0.0000000000000009746588693957 per flop). Though, them pretty flowers make it a very tempting deal ;)

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