Before partnering with Computle, the practice relied on a shared VDI infrastructure that struggled to meet the demands of modern architectural workflows. While the VDI setup provided basic remote access capabilities, the shared resource model created significant performance bottlenecks during peak usage periods.

Resource contention was a persistent issue, particularly when multiple architects worked simultaneously on computationally intensive tasks such as real-time rendering, large-scale 3D modelling in Revit and Rhino, or complex visualisations. The shared infrastructure meant that GPU and CPU resources were distributed across multiple users, leading to inconsistent performance that impacted productivity and creative workflows.

With global offices across multiple locations, the practice needed infrastructure that could support their distributed teams while delivering consistent, high-performance access to demanding architectural applications regardless of location.

The practice chose Computle's dedicated workstation platform to eliminate the performance limitations of shared VDI infrastructure. Unlike traditional VDI where resources are pooled and shared, Computle provides each user with dedicated hardware resources, ensuring consistent, predictable performance regardless of what other users are doing.

Computle deployed 60 high-performance workstations equipped with NVIDIA's RTX 5090 GPUs, providing the computing power needed for demanding architectural applications. The dedicated hardware model meant no resource contention, no performance degradation during peak usage, and the ability to handle even the most complex rendering and visualisation tasks with ease.

The solution also integrated seamlessly with the practice's existing Panzura storage infrastructure, providing globally distributed file access with local performance across all office locations. This combination of dedicated computing resources and distributed storage created a powerful platform for collaborative architectural work across multiple time zones.

The transition from shared VDI to Computle's dedicated workstations delivered substantial performance improvements across all architectural workflows:

• Real-time rendering performance: Architects experienced dramatically faster rendering times in applications like Enscape and V-Ray, with complex scenes that previously took hours now completing in minutes.

• Large model handling: The dedicated NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs enabled smooth navigation and manipulation of extremely large Revit and Rhino models that would previously cause lag or crashes on shared VDI infrastructure.

• Consistent performance: Unlike shared VDI where performance varied based on other users' activity, Computle's dedicated model ensured every architect had consistent, predictable access to full workstation resources.

• Multi-application workflows: Architects could run multiple demanding applications simultaneously - Revit, Rhino, Photoshop, and rendering engines - without performance degradation.

The practice operates from multiple global locations, with Computle's cloud-based infrastructure enabling seamless collaboration across all offices. The platform ensures that all locations benefit from the same consistent performance and access to centrally managed storage via Panzura.

New offices can be provisioned with high-performance workstations in days rather than weeks or months, eliminating the traditional infrastructure deployment challenges associated with opening new locations.

The platform's global reach means architects across different continents can collaborate seamlessly, all accessing the same project files with local-like performance, regardless of physical location. This capability is essential for the practice's international projects and distributed global team.

The fundamental advantage of Computle's dedicated workstation model is the elimination of resource sharing. In traditional shared VDI environments, multiple users compete for limited GPU and CPU resources, creating unpredictable performance that can seriously impact productivity during critical project phases.

With Computle, each architect has dedicated access to an entire workstation, including a full NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, CPU cores, RAM, and storage bandwidth. This dedicated resource model ensures that performance is never impacted by other users' activities, providing the consistent, reliable computing power that architectural professionals demand.

For the practice, this translated to architects being able to work confidently on deadline-critical visualisations and presentations, knowing their workstation performance would remain consistent regardless of time of day or what colleagues were working on.

The transition to Computle has positioned the practice with modern, scalable computing infrastructure that supports their growth ambitions while dramatically improving day-to-day performance for their architects.

By eliminating the performance limitations of shared VDI and providing dedicated, high-performance workstations with cutting-edge NVIDIA GPUs, Computle has become a strategic infrastructure partner supporting the practice's creative vision and global expansion plans.

For architecture practices operating at a global scale with demanding computational requirements, Computle's dedicated workstation platform offers the performance, reliability, and scalability that shared VDI infrastructure simply cannot match.