Patent ID: 8849905

Claim:
A centralized computing system, comprising: a centralized computing centre comprising a plurality of nodes, including visualization nodes having hardware suitable for graphics rendering and computation nodes having CPUs suitable for extensive computation; a plurality of clients in different geographical regions, each allowing visual access to at least one of said nodes and adapted to request a job intended to be executed on said centralized computing centre; and an IP network interconnecting said clients and said centralized computing centre, a scheduler scheduling said job onto a suitable one of said nodes, and launching an application required to execute said job on said suitable node; wherein said plurality of nodes also include desktop container nodes, used for running remote desktop server software, each remote desktop server software communicating visual output to a remote desktop viewer on one of said clients; and wherein said system further comprises an accelerator arrangement capable of providing communication of visual output between said desktop container nodes and said clients using an alternative transport layer protocol other than transmission control protocol (TCP), said alternative transport layer protocol being more efficient than TCP over a high-latency connection.