8 video outputs working simultaneously

Hi,
I’m preparing a conference with a huge screen projection; It’s 60 meters width and 5 meters hight. This space demand six projectors working simultaneously; and every projector will cover a 10 meters width; the sixth part of the screen.
I will buy a MacPro and my question is the fallowing:
Can I have 8 video outputs with this specifications?
Mac Pro 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon + 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
Are the screens organized like 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 working as a big large screen?
Thanks a lot for the help
David

Theoretically this will work. The hardware itself will perform the task you've set it. Obviously the higher the resolution the less the likelihood is things will work smoothly.
That being said you'll possibly need some special software. Basically in OSX you can assign each port to be an 'independent' screen and arrange them in literally any configuration you want. Remember though 'maximizing' an application will only take up 1 screen (you can manually resize the app to cover more than one screen of course). I haven't looked into it but there may be a software product that easily lets you maximize applications across all your screens at once with a simple click of the button. You may have better luck in windows running in bootcamp finding said application / tool but I am nervous about how all those cards will perform under windows.
You may also find it cheaper to do something other than a Mac Pro with 4 cards. It sounds like you only actually need 3 cards (60 meters wide with each card putting out to 2 projects each of which covers 10 meters). Otherwise you can build a PC with Matrox Triple Head cards and just get 2. Lastly, your dimensions will be a little off. There aren't any natively supported resolutions of 2:1 but instead 16:9, 16:10, and 4:3. Basically I'm saying you'll have something a little higher than 5 meters if you do each projector to be 10m wide.
Good luck!

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