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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – January 2021
In 2021, we doubled the number of applications we work with to more than 660. Here are a few recent platform update highlights: NICE DCV on AWS and Microsoft Azure – NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that provides customers with a secure way to deliver remote desktops and application streaming from any…
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Rescale Official Statement on SolarWinds Security Incident
Rescale does not currently use, has not used in the past, nor will we use in the future the SolarWinds Orion platform. Thus, Rescale systems are not affected by the SolarWinds hack. By now you have likely heard about the SolarWinds Orion hack and the collateral damage across the industry as a result of that…
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To All Scientists and Engineers: Thank You
While 2020 may be remembered for the unexpected tribulation it’s brought to all of us, we can’t help but count the blessings we’ve been handed by you — the scientists and engineers working behind the scenes to better this crazy world of ours. You know who you are. You hide your cape under a research…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – December 2020
Rescale works with more than 600 applications. Here are a few recent highlights: SCM ADF 2019 & 2020 – ADF, which stands for Amsterdam Density Functional, is a computational chemistry program particularly strong in understanding and predicting structure, reactivity (catalysis), and spectra of molecules. Learn more here. AutoForm TubeXpert R9.0.0.4 – AutoForm TubeXpert is an…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – November 2020
Rescale works with more than 600 applications. Here are a few recent highlights: CalculiX 2.17 – CalculiX is free software used to solve field problems via a three-dimensional structural finite element program. Learn more here. Altair EDEM 2020.3 – EDEM is high-performance software for bulk and granular material simulation. Powered by the Discrete Element Method…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – October 2020
Rescale works with more than 600 applications. Here are a few recent highlights: Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ – v. 15.04.010 – Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a complete multiphysics solution for the simulation of products and designs operating under real-world conditions. Learn more here. CONVERGE 3.0.16 – CONVERGE CFD by Convergent Science is revolutionary CFD software that eliminates…
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Infographic: The Evolution of Supercomputing
If you are like us, you love to look back at the pages of history and see how far we’ve come. It’s exciting to see retrospects and snapshots of what technology once was. These snapshots allow our minds to imagine what the future of technology has in store. In the world of high performance computing,…
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Business Critical Systems that Drive Innovation
It’s becoming ever more challenging for companies to remain competitive in their industries. In 1964 the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 was 33 years. By 2016 that number shrank to 24 years, and by 2027 the average tenure will be a mere 12 years. The reason for such a drastic change is…
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Rescale Launches Industry’s First Intelligent Control Plane for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Big Compute
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, announced the availability of the industry’s first hybrid and multi-cloud intelligent control plane to deliver new levels of performance, architectural control and R&D productivity. Enterprises face the challenge of fast-growing R&D workloads and new specialized hardware architectures, all while managing cost…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – September 2020
Rescale now works with more than 600 applications. Here are a few recent highlights: FreeFEM 4.6 – FreeFEM is a popular 2 and 3D partial differential equations (PDE) solver used by thousands of researchers across the world. It allows you to easily implement your own physics modules using the provided FreeFEM language. Learn more here.…
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The Top 20 Memes Only Engineers Understand
The Top 20 Memes Only Engineers Understand We are in the business of helping engineers. Whether they are working on new developments in supersonic flight or developing a pandemic ending vaccine, we are there to help. So we are always asking ourselves, what would make their lives better? How can we further help engineers? That’s…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – August 2020
Rescale now works with more than 600 applications. Here are a few recent highlights: Singularity 3.6 – Singularity is a free, cross-platform and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization. One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing and the high performance computing…
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Rescale hacks its way into a fully distributed company culture
Hack day events have long been part of Rescale’s culture of breaking out of patterns to pursue creative problem solving. Whether intended to drum up new product ideas or encourage the cross-pollination of ideas between different teams, interdepartmental hackathons give employees the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other. Earlier this year at Big…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes – July 2020
Here are a few recent highlights: Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 15.04.008 – Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a complete multiphysics solution for the simulation of products and designs operating under real-world conditions. Learn more here. Ansys Suite 2020 R2 – Ansys helps engineering teams accelerate innovation in any environment and create cutting-edge designs by harnessing new workflows and…
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Unlocking HPC Cloud Transformation for Enterprises
Today I get to share something exciting – something that I believe will be a true enabler for the world of applied science and engineering. I joined Rescale in part because I strongly related to its mission to accelerate science and engineering innovation by transforming high performance computing (HPC). From battling pandemics, to addressing climate…
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Rescale Introduces World’s First HPC Analytics Platform Designed for Business Leaders
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, today announced the general availability of Rescale Insight, the industry’s first comprehensive business management solution for high performance computing (HPC). For the first time, Rescale Insight empowers the CFO, CIO, and CTO with in-depth controls to meet financial, security, and architectural…
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Introducing Rescale Insight: Enterprise HPC Tools for the Modern Age
Enterprises are embracing the instant scalability and performance of cloud-based simulations to accelerate the time-to-value of new product innovations. However, technology leaders in these enterprises face another challenge as they begin to scale: how do they maintain architectural, financial, and security control without slowing their researchers and engineers? To help technology leaders tackle these challenges,…
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Platform Updates and Software Release Notes
Here are a few recent highlights: NWChem 7.0.0 – A major version update for a premiere computational chemistry tool maintained at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Notable additions include support of quantum computing and new state-of-the-art functionals. Read the full release notes here. AutoForm TubeXpert – We onboarded AutoForm TubeXpert, a tool which simulates bending,…
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The Latest Azure HPC-optimized VMs are Now Generally Available on the Rescale Platform
Rescale is pleased to announce the general availability of Azure HB (Rescale Amber) and HC (Rescale Carbon), as well as early access availability of HBv2 (Rescale Amber v2) virtual machines (VMs) across different global regions.The H-series virtual machines are the latest HPC offerings on Azure. HBv2 VMs feature 120 AMD EPYC™ 7002-series CPU cores, 480…
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Don’t let “uncertain times” blind you to certainties
The global pandemic has dramatically impacted nearly all industries and markets around the world. For a year that started with immense optimism, 2020 growth has been all but stunted for many sectors, perhaps most visible in aviation and aerospace. Charging into the new decade, innovators touted roadmaps for autonomous, supersonic, and space-faring aircrafts with commitments…