Advanced Computation & Visualization Facility

Cornea

The Visualization Lab at KAUST hosts a Mechdyne-built CAVE, creating the world’s highest resolution and brightest virtual environment. This immersive visualization facility comprises :

  • 24 of the world’s highest native resolution projectors (4096 x 2160 pixels each), with four illuminating each side of a cubic space
  • A fully immersive stereoscopic visual environment
  • 100 million pixels
  • Allows up to 8 viewers in the environment
Advance Computation & Visualization Facility

An Advanced Audio Studio complements the visual experience. A CORNEA cluster provides computational power to drive the displays :

  • 96 quad-core CPUs
  • 768 gigabytes of RAM
  • 12 TB of internal hard drive capacity
  • Dual gigabit interprocessor connectivity
  • 2 x 10 gigabit uplinks
  • 96 FX5600 GPUs
  • 144 GB of graphics memory
  • 48 TB of external storage

A Multi-Purpose Room has an ultra high resolution (32 million pixel) digital cinema projection system, allowing stereoscopic viewing for an audience of 75. This room also provides a reconfigurable dynamic collaborative display environment for inter-disciplinary research.