The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) brought together about 100 researchers, campus administrators and networking infrastructure officials at the University of California, San Diego to explore breakthroughs in super-fast networking among research institutions in California to help scientists make new discoveries.

Falko Kuester, Calit2’s Professor of Visualization and Virtual Reality at UC San Diego, demonstrated the prototype for a system he calls the “HIPerVerse,” which allows two of the world’s highest-resolution, distributed visualization systems — the HIPerSpace display in San Diego and the HIPerWall in Irvine — to be interconnected into ultra-resolution environments at the pixel level.

Calit2 Director Larry Smarr called the HIPerVerse demonstration a “breakthrough which momentarily created the world’s largest virtual OptIPortal. The mega-displays in both Calit2 buildings were temporarily united into a 124-tile HIPerVerse, exceeding half a billion pixels.