Case Study: Virginia Tech achieves real-time, browser-based HPC access and reduced network bandwidth with OpenText Exceed TurboX

OpenText Exceed TurboX provides high performance graphical remote application access, increasing productivity

Virginia Tech, a major research university with more than 33,000 students and a $504M research portfolio, faced barriers getting researchers and non-technical students to use high performance computing (HPC). Accessing graphical apps like MATLAB typically required SSH and local installs on low-powered laptops, forcing large data transfers that strained campus bandwidth and generated many help-desk requests.

The university deployed OpenText Exceed TurboX to provide browser-based, single-click access to centrally hosted applications and data, plus centrally managed profiles and session suspension. The result: responsive, real-time visualizations on any device, reduced network traffic because data stays in the datacenter, fewer support calls, simpler administration and reporting, and higher user productivity.

Virginia Tech

Justin Krometis

Computational Science Specialist