April 16, 2009 –
Greenberg (center) explains the custom software’s capabilities.
Hiperwall Inc., the software company spun off from CALIT2 research technology, will be featured in a report next month on World Business & Technology TV, a Northern California cable television station.
Hiperwall, Inc. licenses custom software that allows users to view and manipulate easily extremely large datasets on huge, grid-based displays. The software was developed by CALIT2 researchers for use on the original HIPerWall, a 23 x 9-foot, 200-megapixel, 50-monitor tiled display wall powered by 25 Apple G2 computers.
Since early this year, the software has been available for commercial use after the university and UCI’s CALIT2 division signed a licensing agreement with the spinoff company.
The Hiperwall, Inc. product is distributed on Samsung monitors that contain built-in PCs, making the system completely portable, easy to assemble and readily configurable.
The software runs on a parallel-computing platform, giving users the option of viewing content in different ways: as one large, high-resolution image; as a series of smaller images displayed concurrently; or as a combination of large images, videos, streaming content and real-time screen shots from monitors of networked PCs.
World Business & Technology TV’s Farrukh Shah Khan interviewed Hiperwall’s interim CEO Jeff Greenberg, who demonstrated the technology. Greenberg said the software has applications in a variety of markets, including medical, scientific and research organizations as well as transportation system providers, power grid operators and financial institutions.
The software is “display-agnostic,” Greenberg explained, meaning that it is equally effective regardless of the display it inhabits. “It can be used with display walls consisting of as many or as few monitors as the customer wants,” he said.
The taped segment is expected to air within a month on cable television channel 15.
— Anna Lynn Spitzer
