Jennifer Eakins talks to Channel 10 news about the 8.7 magnitude Nias earthquake in Sumatra on March 28, 2005. The ANFwall shows the real time data collected by the USArray sensors during the earthquake. These are seen on the display as yellow waveforms.

Hardware Specifications

Seven-node Apple Power Mac G5 cluster

• Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
• 8 GB DDR400 SDRAM
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL
• Built-in gigabit ethernet and a second PCI-X gigabit ethernet card for cluster interconnect (using a Netgear switch).

Thirteen 30” Apple monitors

• 12 displays are mounted on the wall as a 4x3 tiled display. Each display supports a resolution of up to 2560 x 1600. The total resolution of the tiled display is nearly 50 megapixels.
• 1 display is connected to the master node.