The Emergence of the Personal Data Wall
Utility Automation & Engineering T&D - September 2007
Recent technological advances in graphics hardware and software have introduced a number of possibilities for professionals working in areas such as grid operations centers where large amounts of data are employed. With the use of multiple monitors from a single computer, it is possible to view and work with great amounts of information at once, and for onscreen information to be moved smoothly from one display to another as if all the displays were one.
Various studies report productivity gains between 10 percent and 50 percent from using multiple displays. Many who use a multi-display system for the first time are reluctant to go back to a single-display system. "For someone close to the technology the question is: Why not more?" said a multi-display report by Jon Peddie Research. "The reasons for, and benefits from, multiple displays seem so abundant and obvious; it is almost confusing as to why every system in the world doesn't have multiple displays."
