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Multi-Screen
Wall Controller
for Windows XP®
and Win 2K
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The Fusion 980 Display Wall
Processor from Jupiter Systems is the ultimate solution for
command and control applications requiring true 24/7 operation,
superb visual performance and unrivaled configuration and
operational flexibility. The Fusion 980 can blend
seamlessly into installations such as Network Operation Centers
(NOC), Public Utility Control Centers, Intelligent Traffic
Management Centers, Process Control, Civil and Military
Surveillance Systems, Call Centers, Financial Management Control
Rooms, Boardroom and Video Conference Rooms.
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THE FUSION 980 DISPLAY WALL CONTROLLER
The Fusion 980 Display Wall Processor integrates all of
the visual data sources found in a control room environment and displays
them in movable, scalable windows on a virtual display comprised of
multiple output devices: monitors, LCD flat panels, plasma panels,
projection cubes, or a rear projection system. Data sources can
include local applications, remote network applications, and directly
connected video and analog RGB inputs. All data sources are
accessed from an intuitive and consistent software interface providing
complete control of the virtual display surface.
REVOLUTIONARY SWITCH FABRIC INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURE
At the heart of the Fusion 980
is a state-of-the-art switched
fabric interconnect, previously only found in high-end internet backbone
switching equipment, and housed in its own 8U Switch Fabric Chassis.
Traditional bus architecture, such as PCI, is a resource that is shared
among all connected peripherals, and, as a result, is often overwhelmed
by high data and graphics traffic commonly found in the control room
environment. The Fusion 980 switch
fabric provides each of its 15 peripheral
slots with dedicated bandwidth of up to 4Gb/s.
Peripheral cards connect through the Fusion 980
backplane to an
ultra-high-bandwidth switch card that dynamically determines the optimal
route for data to pass between cards, providing fast, scalable
performance. With the addition of an optional parallel switch
card, data bandwidth increases to an astonishing 8Gb/s
per slot, guaranteeing fast RGB, graphics and video performance
regardless of the display wall size and ensuring continued system
operation even in the event of a switch card failure.
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INDUSTRY LEADING CPU ARCHITECTURE
Anchoring the Fusion 980,and
housed in a separate 4U
chassis, is the most powerful CPU architecture of any display
processor in its class: dual Intel Xeon processors running at 2.8
GHz, a 533MHz
front side bus coupled to a standard 1GB
of DDR RAM, a PCI-X peripheral bus with 3
available slots, and
built-in dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The Fusion 980
CPU chassis connects to
the 8Uswitch
fabric chassis via the same high-bandwidth connection that
interconnects all of the switch fabric peripheral slots,
assuring high graphics performance. With the capacity to
add up to 3GB of
RAM and the equivalent of four processors with Intel
Hyper-Threading technology, the Fusion 980
can handily execute the
most demanding command and control applications, and easily
outrun its competition. PCI-X slots in the CPU chassis can
hold optional quad or dual Gigabit Ethernet cards as well as a
SCSI RAID card. The Fusion 980,
when configured with three 36GB
10,000 RPM
UW320SCA
drives, can have RAID 1 with
a hot standby disk enabled as an option. All these
features translate into the fastest and most flexible computing,
graphics and video platform available today in a display wall
processor.
HIGH PERFORMANCE GRAPHICS
Jupiter Systems is unique in the AV market,
having established a strong OEM relationship with ATI, the world
leader in graphics chip technology. Jupiter uses the ATI Radeon
Mobility 7500 graphics
chip in the Fusion 980.The
Radeon Mobility 7500 has
32MB
of on-chip memory and a core clock speed of 225MHz,providing
world class graphics performance. The Fusion 980
supports both analog and
digital (DVI) outputs on its DVI-I connector at resolutions up
to 1600x1200
pixels analog and 1280x1024
digital. Custom display
formats can be created with easy to use software, for
installations using non-standard display devices.
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CUSTOMIZABLE CONFIGURATIONS
The Fusion 980 is
built in Jupiter’s ISO 9001:2000
registered
facility to meet the specific requirements of each customer.
vailable
PCI-X slots in the CPU chassis for standard PC expansion
Can
be configured with 1 to 15 graphics cards
Up to 32 RGB
inputs
Up
to ten Gigabit Ethernet ports
Up to 3GB of
RAM
An expansion Switch Fabric chassis can be added
for a total of 30
available
peripheral slots. Each Switch Fabric chassis has 32
composite
and 16 S-Video input connectors.
The Fusion 980
comes
standard with 1GB
of PC2100 DDR
RAM, a single hot-swappable 36GB
SCSI-3 disk
drive (second and third drives are optional), a 12x24x48 CDRW
drive and 1.44MB floppy. The standard operating system is
Windows XP Professional; Windows 2000
Professional
is optionally available.
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FLEXIBLE VIDEO DISPLAY
The Fusion 980 provides ample video
connectivity, with 32 composite BNC and 16 S-Video mini-DIN
connectors. All graphics devices have access to connected video
sources through Jupiter’s exclusive analog video bus that is
connected to all 15 peripheral slots and runs in parallel to the
switch fabric. Real time video windows can be moved, scaled and
placed freely on the display wall, and with standard Jupiter
MultiVideo™ software, multiple video windows can be displayed
on any output channel. Video windows act like any other
window on the wall and can be freely moved, resized, minimized
or maximized to cover the entire display wall. The Fusion
980 graphics cards utilize state-of-the-art video processing
resulting in superb video quality at full 30fps rates.
HIGH PERFORMANCE RGB INPUTS
As many as 32 analog RGB inputs can be
optionally added to a Fusion 980 Display Wall processor, with
the availability of quad, dual or single RGB input boards.
Sources such as laptops, workstations, stand-alone computers and
legacy systems with resolutions up to 1600x1200 can be connected
directly to the Fusion 980,displaying the source’s output in a
freely movable, scalable window on the display wall. With
the incredible bandwidth of the switched fabric interconnect,
RGB sources refresh in near real time regardless of the size of
the window.
SYSTEM AVAILABILITY
The Fusion 980 is designed for continuous
"24/7"operation in the control room environment.
To this end, the Fusion 980 features many hot-swappable and
redundant components including: hot-swappable redundant power
supplies on both the CPU and Switch Fabric chassis,
hot-swappable input, output and switch fabric cards, hot
swappable fans, and hot-swappable SCSI disk drives. Jupiter is
the only manufacturer truly committed to high availability
solutions for the display wall market—no other company
provides a product with the redundancy, availability and low
MTTR (mean time to repair) of the Fusion 980. Hardware and
software continuously monitor system parameters such as ambient
chassis temperature, CPU temperatures, power supply voltages,
switch fabric link status, and chassis fan tachometers, and
automatically alert users to conditions that require direct
intervention. System events are logged both in
ControlPoint software and in the standard Windows event log.
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COMPREHENSIVE SOFTWARE
SUITE
Jupiter Systems designs all its
own software and hardware as an integrated whole, creating a tightly
woven architecture that provides the best functionality and achieves the
highest possible performance from its systems. The Jupiter Fusion 980
comes standard with the Windows XP Professional operating system.
Jupiter’s third generation
Galileo VirtualScreen™ drivers are seamlessly integrated into the
Windows XP environment, providing intuitive setup of display wall
configurations and allowing Windows applications to freely move and
scale across the entire display wall. Included PC X server software
provides compatibility with X Window client applications from
workstations such as those from HP, IBM, Sun, as well as PCs running
Linux.
Included with the Fusion 980 is
RemoteCursor™ software which allows a client Windows workstation to
take control of the display wall over a network, having direct access to
the entire display wall as if he/she were sitting at the keyboard and
mouse directly attached to the controller. Multiple users can run
RemoteCursor simultaneously, although only one can have access to the
display wall at a given time.
CONTROLPOINT™ GUI,
PROTOCOL AND API
The Fusion 980 is delivered with
ControlPoint software standard. ControlPoint is a complete, integrated,
and intuitive software solution for the control and management of the
Fusion 980 Display Wall Processor.
 ControlPoint
is a client/server based system: the server resides on the Fusion 980
processor directly accessing hardware functionality, whereas the client
is installed on a network accessible PC running Windows. ControlPoint
client and server communicate over a TCP/IP connection with the
ControlPoint protocol, an open-text communications protocol. The
ControlPoint protocol and supporting API can be used for custom
applications and control. An RS-232 gateway is provided for serial
communication devices. Simple applications using JavaScript and HTML can
be generated in minutes, whereas the complete power of the Jupiter
Fusion 980 is available to those who truly want a customized interface
and complete control.
ControlPoint client provides a
consistent user interface to start, position, size, and scale
application, RGB, and video windows, directly on the display wall and
remotely via a network client.
 With
RGB and video windows, ControlPoint provides a specific dialog-based
user interface to change the input channel, adjust display parameters
such as brightness, contrast, saturation and hue, and to position, size
and label the window. ControlPoint also allows the user to crop a video
or RGB source to view only that precise part of interest to the user.
Application windows can be started from
the ControlPoint remote client interface and then interacted with just
like any other window.
ControlPoint provides the ability to
save the state of the display wall into a layout, stored on the display
processor, and to quickly recall saved layouts directly from the user
interface or from user-assignable hot-keys. The number of layouts is
limited only by the size of the hard drive on the Fusion 980.
 ControlPoint
client displays a scalable graphic mimic of the display wall that
includes live, continuously updated images from the display wall for
easy identification of specific windows during manipulation of the
display wall. Windows can be interacted with directly on the interface
and can easily be moved, resized, minimized, maximized and closed.
ControlPoint displays system monitoring
data in an event list and alerts the user to potentially hazardous
conditions arising in the Fusion 980 via a health status icon displayed
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