With a throughput of more than 400 GB/s, the Las Vegas sphere SSD is ultra-powerful in addition to being unobtainable for ordinary mortals. This technology designed by a Japanese company reveals its characteristics allowing you to display sumptuous images.
- The Las Vegas Sphere runs on an ultra-powerful SSD designed by Japanese company Hitachi Vantara
- This unobtainable and unique SSD ensures a throughput of more than 400 GB/s
- The sphere displays 4K images at 60 frames per second, a world first
You have undoubtedly seen the Las Vegas sphere on social networks. This big ball in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the United States (greetings fans of Fallout: Vegas News) is known for displaying real-time content like the huge yellow smiley face above. To function, this technological feat relies on an SSD which cannot be found anywhere.
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Images broadcast in 4K at 60 frames per second
With a size of 112 meters and a width of 157 meters, the Las Vegas sphere houses a stadium within it. Concerts and other events take place there while inside and outside, 16K screens broadcast images for a… dazzling rendering. If the results are impressive on video, we can hardly imagine when we find ourselves near – or in – this ball planted in the middle of a desert.
To function, the Las Vegas sphere therefore needs a sufficiently high flow rate. It is therefore equipped an SSD designed by Hitachi Vantara, a Japanese company. This SSD made up of 27 nodes for 4000 TB (or 4 PB of storage) sends content to the dedicated 7thSense servers in real time. They then broadcast 4K images at 60 frames per second. This is a world first in terms of technological capacity on such a scale.
The product manager at Hitachi Vantara, Octavian Tanase, is pleased with this feat. According to him, the Sphere “represented a new entertainment experienceimmersive and visually powerful”. The Japanese company therefore worked in “close collaboration” with the sphere team for “test, measure and improve the way data is processed, disseminated and projected”. In terms of quality, the man claims that “the resolution and color are unmatched”.
A throughput of more than 400 GB/s, a real feat
The SSD allowed the film Postcard from Earth by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Whale…) projected onto the sphere of managing over 400 GB/s throughput with less than 5 millisecond latency and 12-bit color display and 444 subsampling.
The result is a technology that diffuses “immersive video content in high resolution on a scale never before achieved” according to Alex Luthwaite, senior vice president of entertainment systems technology at Sphere Entertainment who designed this enormous ball in the middle of Vegas.