Many may have seen The Sphere, a large spherical building in Las Vegas, with LED screens both inside and outside, totaling a combined 750,000 square feet.
NVIDIA has a blog explaining the background of displaying images on this large screen, using 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs (introduced in 2020, based on Ampere architecture) to render a 16x16K resolution on the inside screen and the outside LED screen with a total of 1.2 million pixels. This makes it the largest LED screen in the world.
The content creation team for the screen is known as Sphere Studios, based in Burbank, California, sending real-time video files to be streamed on the screen in Las Vegas. The images are displayed at a resolution of 16K in three layers, at 60 frames per second. The video streaming backend uses NVIDIA Rivermax software, along with a network system employing NVIDIA Bluefield DPU chips, needing precise synchronization down to the microsecond level through DOCA Firefly Service using the precision time protocol (PTP).
Source: NVIDIA, Image from @SphereVegas
TLDR: The Sphere in Las Vegas utilizes advanced NVIDIA technology to showcase high-resolution images on the largest LED screen in the world, managed by Sphere Studios from Burbank, California.
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