Contact staff: Jose Miguel Espadero Guillermo Carlos Gomez Fernandez Fax 91 488 7184 |
Description of the Service/trials offered
This laboratory is mainly dedicated to teaching and research, carrying out tasks such as:
- Scientific and teaching support to Teaching and Research Staff.
- Promotion and scientific dissemination of the equipment and developments made to society in general.
- Support for the use of the different equipment so that the students of the different grades carry out Internships and End-of-Grade Projects
Available equipment
Advanced Computing Laboratory
PC cluster
The PC cluster is made up of a set of 40 nodes, each node has an AMD Athlon XP1800 processor, 20 GB of main memory and 512Mb of RAM, interconnected through a high-speed Myrinet-200-Fiber/PCI-type network. 2+2Gbps and a 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet network, a Master View Pro CS1016 KVM switch and a keyboard, monitor and mouse for system administration tasks running under the Linux operating system.
All nodes and equipment are rack mounted in six 19'' cabinets; with an adequate ventilation and extraction system and an uninterruptible power supply.
The objective of the cluster is to have a very powerful, highly scalable calculation system with a good price/performance ratio capable of executing high-cost computational programs in parallel.
computer graphics system
It is made up of four state-of-the-art Quantum 3D Obsidian QX model computers, each computer has a Dual Intel XEON 2.2 Ghz processor, Ventana 5121 AGP-nVidia Quadro 900 xgl mod video card. and 1Gbyte of RAM with Windows 2000 and Linux operating systems
The four units are rack-mounted in a 19'' cabinet interconnected by a hub, forming a hardware-synchronized multi-channel system.
The objective of the system is to carry out all the calculations related to the visualization of data in the virtual reality cave, that is, to generate in real time the images that must be projected on the walls and floor of the cave.
Advanced Visualization Laboratory
It has systems that allow the visualization of complex data, as well as a series of virtual reality equipment that can be used to carry out applications in different fields such as interactive simulation, corporate design, prototyping, training, diagnosis and planning. surgery and advanced human-machine interface design.
3D projection room
Made up of a 3D projection system, consisting of a projection screen, two high-quality SHARP LCD XG-P20XE projectors with ultra-high brightness, two polarized filters, 3D glasses and a Pentium IV computer with an Nvidia Quadro4 XGL graphics card, which allows visualization of 3D scenes to groups of up to 12 people.
Virtual reality devices
2 Cybermid hi-Res800 augmented reality headsets with a 2 x 0,7'' LCD display, 800x600 resolution and 28º field of view, which allow you to mix real and computer-generated images to view immersive scenes individually.
2 V6 virtual reality headsets from Virtual Research System with a 1,3'' display, 640x480 resolution per eye and a 260º field of view that allows viewing images in stereoscopic form.
Immersion virtual reality glove with 22 position sensors, 0,5º resolution per sensor and RS-232 interface that allows knowing the position and posture of the operator's hand at all times.
Haptic devices that allow the computer to provide tactile feedback, that is, to give the impression of touching an object that does not exist in reality, specifically a generic PHANTOM Premium 1.5 haptic device from Sensable with a resolution of 0,03 mm and maximum effort of 8,5 Nw, and two haptic devices oriented towards virtual simulations of laparoscopy operations Laparoscopic Impulse Engine from Immersion with a resolution of 0,025 mm.
A Virtual Laparoscopic medical instrument simulator Immersion Interface that monitors 5 types of movement in each instrument with an RS-232C interface.
A Flock of Birds magnetic positioning system from Ascension Technology Corporation, with the possibility of 1 to 4 positioning sensors without the need for line-of-sight between transmitter and receiver and RS-232C interface.
virtual reality cave
Advanced reconfigurable and modular display system RAVE II by Fakespace system consisting of 3 projection modules 3 meters wide by 6 meters high that can form different projection configurations: a 3 x 3 meter room where the walls and the floor are projection screens, a 6 x 3 meter flat screen, multi-angle immersive theater, L-shape and independent 10''8 x3 m screens.
Using a tracking system and 3D glasses, the computer graphics system is capable of processing the images to be projected on each screen so that someone inside the cave can experience an immersive 3D experience within a scenario completely generated by computer.
Software for the design and visualization of 3D objects and scenarios
Eon Studio is a development tool to create interactive 3D applications allowing them to be viewed on different types of devices.