Rig of the week: 6 displays are better than 1

could of gone the 30" screens.. cheap scientists!

I think it looks like crap. It's not like the other type of setups where it looks seamless..... This looks ridiculous and hard to view.

Hi everyone,
Thanks for all your comments, there's no faking going on here. We have a a single MacPro system with 4 GeForce 7300 Cards that can support up to 8- 23" displays. We built this system here to take advantage of some really cool software written in collaboration with Electronic Visualization Lab at Univ.of Illinois at Chicago. The software doesn't require such a large display but allows us to display litterally km's of deep sea sediments, ice cores, or images at very high resolution along with lots of other data to track environmental changes, etc... The 6 monitors shown are simply hanging on 2 sets of wooden 2x4's for an outside display we made very quickly for a public outreach program here at Columbia University. Please check out our website at www.corewall.org. While the display is fun ...the software is the story.

@ thebiblioholic
Ah yes, that's what I was missing....I thought the 7300 only has one DVI port
My bad

If you go to the Apple Store, you can configure a MacPro with up to 4 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB cards. Each card "features a 256MB frame buffer and both a single-link DVI port and a dual-link DVI port, making it capable of simultaneously supporting one 23-inch and one 30-inch Apple Cinema Display." I presume it can handle two 23-inch displays, for a maximum of 8 on a Mac Pro. No?

Why fake? No signs of photoshop...

It's obviously not a fake, why would anyone fake something so dull? Oooh six monitors.

If I recall correctly, they had two 1x4 pieces of lumber strung between the two blue metal uprights and hooked the monitors onto those pieces of wood. Not exactly the most elegant construction, but it is functional and used in the core lab at Lamont.
(http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu)

Not fake. I saw it demonstrated at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House on Oct 7th.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebiblioholic/263578665/

Someone needs some serious cable management!!!