What's New

New features available in Altair Access™ Web.

Next-Generation of Remote Desktops

Remote Desktops is the new and improved version of Remote Sessions. It offers better performance and consumes lesser resources by using H.264, HTML5, Web-assembly, GPU and CPU based encoding and decoding technologies. Remote Desktops can be configured and installed using scripts that are packaged with the Access Web installer.

Remote Desktops Enhancements

You can now further enhance the Remote Desktops experience by adjusting the quality settings, downloading performance statistics and enabling debugging logs for troubleshooting.

Remote Desktops Application Definitions

The new Remote Desktops application definitions require a one-time update of existing Remote Desktops application definitions due to the change in the underlying technology stack. New application definitions can be created and published using the application composer or the application definitions examples. Once the application definitions are created, framework updates can be delivered seamlessly in the future.

Security Vulnerabilities

Log4j is updated to 2.17.1 and the CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-45046, and CVE-2021-44832 vulnerabilities are fixed. Third-party libraries are updated to their latest stable versions to fix library related security issues.

Windows and Linux Compute Nodes

Access Web supports both Linux and Windows execution hosts.

Job submitted to Linux or Windows execution node in PBS Professional is based on the architecture defined in the application definition.

Share Audit Log with Altair

The portal administrator and audit administrator can share audit logs with Altair from Access Web.

Resumable File Upload and Download

File upload and download will resume even if network connection is interrupted.

Enhancement of Site Specific Pages

The configured site-specific web pages will now be displayed at the top-level along with Files, Jobs, and Desktops. The site-specific web pages are opened in a new tab and a More drop-down menu is displayed if there are too many pages configured.

The Administrator has the capability to grant and restrict access to the site-specific pages using the Access Control Management.

Job Submission Page Enhancements

The profile related items are grouped in the Job Submission form. The application definition profiles created by the user are displayed as a drop-down menu in the Job Submission form.

Job Monitoring Enhancements

The job filter in the Job Monitoring page provides an option to filter the jobs based on Interactive Jobs, Batch Jobs and Array Jobs.

Support for HyperWorks Desktop and Compose 2021.2

RVS has now been enhanced to use HyperWorks Desktop and Compose 2021.2 for Visualizations. Since it uses the features of the 2021.2 version of HyperWorks Desktop and Compose, older versions are not supported.