Stack Exchange's Really Big Monitor Setup

I kinda expected more from a group hosting millions of conversations a year and undisclosed$$ derived from it. Think bigger, like Visa's NOC big...<p><a href="http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/visa-headquarters.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/visa-headquarters.jpg</a>

This sort of thing was popular during the dot-com boom.

Why 3x580 instead of a single eyefinity Radeon? Would seem like a obvious choice for such project.

Odd that half the screens have couch-style content and half have desktop-style content.

It looks like they took at least a little inspiration from Panic's Status Board: <a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/</a>

Spolsky's interview technique here is flawless

I was thinking they were using Leftronic for their dashboard, but looks like they say it's Geckoboard. Interesting how there's a convergence around how dashboards look - I imagine it's like michaelbuckbee said, that Panic's design is a huge inspiration for others.

This reminds me of the Ultimate Wallboard contest that Atlassian put out last year <a href="http://ultimatewallboard.com/entries" rel="nofollow">http://ultimatewallboard.com/entries</a>

Really big???<p><i>This</i> is really big:<p><a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/viz_systems.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/viz_systems.html</a>

Does anyone know what is powering the analytics? Is it gecko board? Or a custom solution?