Cost-Effective Parallel Tiled Display

This paper describes the CECA VisLab Tiled Display—a reconfigurable, multi-screen, multi-computer, distributed image display system with zoom and pan functions. The project software utilizes distributed computing algorithms to control a parallel system to render high resolution images and scientific data on multiple displays. The system extends open source software to provide a large tiled image display using commodity hardware. The current version runs on Microsoft Windows but it can be easily ported to other platforms. The intent is to provide a costeffective, multi-platform, distributed image rendering and display program usable by noncomputer specialists. Possible applications include high image resolution display for physicists, astronomers, and biologists.