'Hyperwall-2' is doubly beautiful.

The pursuit of knowledge is one of the few truly beautiful attributes of humanity. Rarely is that intrinsic beauty visible in our clumsy monkey groping. When the beauty of that search for understanding is matched by its physical interface it overwhelms, the intellectual comprehension of the endeavour spilling over into an emotional response.


"Developed by scientists and engineers in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames, the 128-screen hyperwall-2, capable of rendering one quarter billion pixel graphics, is the world's highest resolution scientific visualization and data exploration environment".

The original article in National Geographic where I first read of the Hyperwall (the article is nearly poetry, and features the usual stunning NG photos):
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/ferris-text