Digital artists on different continents collaborate in real time on a 3D animated film. A government agency provides a trusted contractor with secure, eyes-only access to sensitive information, confident that the data can't be copied, stored or shared. And an engineering firm gives its users access to sophisticated modeling software without undergoing an expensive hardware and software deployment.
The common thread to all of these scenarios is that each is easily attainable with innovative HP Remote Graphics Software
HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) is an advanced utility that offers remote users a "just like local" workstation experience - complete with complex 2D and 3D images or media-rich content as streaming video — on ordinary PCs.
How it works
There are three components to an HP RGS solution:
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Sender - A workstation capable of handling high-performance tasks such as 3D graphics creation. The necessary applications, data, processing power and graphics hardware all reside on this machine.
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Receiver - One or more desktop PCs (Intel Pentium 4, Xeon, or AMD Opteron).
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TCP/IP network - A standard LAN or Internet connection between sender and receiver.
HP Remote Graphics Software reads the desktop displayed on the sender's screen, compresses it using an advanced HP CODEC (used by NASA on the Mars Explorer), and sends the screen image over a TCP/IP network to the receiver. The receiver decompresses the image and displays it on screen, replicating the workstation desktop.
The remote user can then interact with the applications using their keyboard and mouse just as if he or she was sitting at the workstation. Commands are encrypted and sent back to the sender, which executes them. The resulting changes are then relayed back to the receiver - and so on, in a rapid cycle.
Because processing and graphics rendering is executed on the workstation, the remote PCs don't require the high-end processors and 3D graphics cards normally needed to view and work with 3D graphics.
Wide variety of benefits
These capabilities offer businesses a wide variety of benefits:
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High-performance collaboration Multiple remote contributors can access and work on centrally located projects. This leads to faster time-to-completion, improved file consistency, and higher productivity. Plus, HP RGS is the only remote collaboration software that can handle 3D images, media-rich content, and streaming video, which makes it an ideal and affordable solution for digital content creation, computer-aided design, oil and gas, science and other industries with complex graphics and 3D content needs.
These shared-environment capabilities also enable many additional uses such software training, product demonstrations, project reviews, geographically dispersed teams and fully productive telecommuting.
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Stateless-client data security Data security is inherent to HP Remote Graphics Software because no applications or data leaves the sender workstation. Only the pixel information necessary to mirror the sender's desktop is sent. This means, for instance, that a parts vendor could remotely view and interact with a manufacturer's product design, yet the manufacturer can rest assured that a copy of this intellectual property won't somehow make its way to a competitor's hands. Multi-user access (collaboration) can be turned off to assure single user access security.
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Consolidated compute resources Often, a business might discover that while their employees frequently require the use of high-performance workstations, much of their daily computing needs can be met by standard PCs. HP RGS allows these organizations to easily create a pool of workstations that workers can access from lower-cost PCs whenever they have workstation-class demands.
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Flexible disaster recovery In the event that a business's main office becomes inaccessible, disaster recovery safeguards that include HP Remote Graphics Software and remote-site workstations allow workers to resume business operations immediately.
What's more, under normal conditions, remote backup machines need not sit idle at the DR facility. HP Remote Graphics Software enables users to harness their processing power any time it's needed over the network.
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