Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels - and they're keeping it all to themselves from the looks of the picture below.

While tiling panels together is not new, the approach that they're taking - of building a cluster of graphics drivers - is pretty intruiging.  The “graphics super cluster” being developed at UCSD consists of 80 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics processing units (GPUs). The graphics and computational performance of these cards is quite astounding. The theoretical computational performance of the cluster at almost 40 teraflops.

There's not a lot of discussion about the software they use to drive the system, but others such as Xdmx have worked to extend the X-Windows system to support tiled displays.

While UCSD has only thoughts for scientific applications, we're sure the Entertainment and Advertising industries could come up with a few interesting applications.