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Last year, we saw the beauty of The Sphere in Las Vegas for the first time – a sight that has attracted thousands of visitors to The Venetian resort. With a colorful show on July 4 and then a U2 concert, it left an impression for sure.
NVIDIA has shared how its tech makes the magic happen in a blog post, revealing that around 150 RTX A6000 GPUs power the giant 16x16K displays across the Sphere’s 160,000 square feet interior along with 1.2 million programmable LED pucks of the 580,000 square feet exterior, the world’s largest LED screen.
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Together, all these LEDs and pixels work to deliver synchronized images to The Sphere, developed at Sphere Studios. Once the video is transferred, it is streamed to rack-mounted workstations equipped with NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs in real time. As pointed out by Tom's Hardware, 27 nodes of the Sphere contain 4,000 TB of flash memory that can achieve 400 GB/s speed.
"Delivering robust network connectivity, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx NICs — along with the NVIDIA DOCA Firefly Service and NVIDIA Rivermax software for media streaming — ensure that all the display panels act as one synchronized canvas."
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