At Software Studies Initiative, we imagine the future cultural researchers able to collect analyze and visualize in real time all of social media content and communication - to see cultural patterns of all humanities at all scales.
We are lucky to work with the highest resolution system designed at Calit2: 287 megapixel HIPerSpace.
It is also good to know that we can get help in processing "big cultural data":
UCSD scientists claim world data sorting record for 2nd year - sorting a terabyte (one trillion bytes) of data in 106 seconds
