This topic comes up often on comp.lang.idl-pvwave in Google Groups. It does take some programming work to get it to work.
I found Mike Galloy's tiling demo with IDLgrImage a big help with understanding how this all works.
http://michaelgalloy.com/...iling-in-idl-62.html
ITTVIS covers this in their Advance IDL classes as well. Check out their ftp site for the tiler code samples.
Kelly