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Building a Digital Twin? Consider a Vendor-Agnostic HPC Cloud
This article originally appeared on ENGINEERING.com. To see the full article, click here. The concept of the digital twin brings versatility to the engineering world. By creating a virtual representation of a product, engineers can investigate designs to further product development, in-service optimizations, and quality assurance. Now with the implementation of the Internet of Things…
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Tackling Big Epidemics with Big Compute
Guest post by Kierste Miller, Data Scientist at Metabiota At Metabiota, we are fascinated by infectious diseases and the way they spread. Epidemics pose an immense risk to the entire globe; however, they are notoriously challenging to forecast and monitor. Our team produces epidemic risk models for the insurance, commercial and government sectors to help…
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Will HPC Move to the Cloud? Video Interview with Gabriel Broner
Watch this interview with Rescale’s VP of High Performance Computing, Gabriel Broner, as he discusses the evolution of the HPC industry, the benefits of the cloud, and the future of HPC. Gabriel Broner is the VP & General Manager of High Performance Computing at Rescale. With 25 years of experience in the industry, Gabriel has…
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Understanding How an Engineer Thinks
When software engineers look at a piece of code, the first question they ask themselves is “what is it doing?” The next question is “why is it doing it?” In fact, there is a deep connection between these two – why becomes what at the next level of abstraction. That is, what and why are…
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Why Formula One CFD Simulations Should Go with a Unified Cloud HPC Platform
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) released the latest version of sporting and technical regulations for 2017 Formula One Grand Prix on April 29, 2016. This document is the rulebook that all Formula One racing teams must follow in the 2017 season. All of the restrictions of CFD simulations are clearly defined in Appendix 8…
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Cloud: The Next Disruption in HPC
In 1991, I joined Cray and had the opportunity to work on the machines Seymour Cray designed. I was working on the operating system and would often have to work alone on it at night, but the excitement of working on such unique systems kept me going. The Cray 1, XMP, YMP, represented a family…
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What if Airport Security Were More Like On-Premise HPC?
Why high utilization doesn’t work for TSA and why it doesn’t work for HPC Executive Summary: In the case of big compute power, the purchase of large capital assets can create an organizational misalignment of incentives that places the needs of the end user last Achieving high utilization rates of on-premise computing is a pyrrhic…
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3 Ways IBM Bluemix and Rescale Unlock Cloud HPC
By Jerry Gutierrez, Global HPC Solution Leader, Bluemix Infrastructure (SoftLayer), IBM Cloud & Tyler Smith, Head of Partnerships, Rescale IBM Bluemix offers our customers an impressive array of leading high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, including bare metal servers and the latest GPUs, on an hourly basis to customers all over the world. But as HPC technology…
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Deep Learning with Multiple GPUs on Rescale: TensorFlow Tutorial
In a previous post, we showed examples of using multiple GPUs to train a deep neural network (DNN) using the Torch machine learning library. In this post, we will focus on performing multi-GPU training using TensorFlow. In particular, we will explore data-parallel GPU training with multi-GPU and multi-node configurations on Rescale. We will leverage Rescale’s…
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How to Control Usage and Cost with the ScaleX Enterprise Admin Portal
At Rescale, we meet with many IT and engineering management teams to discuss their HPC needs and how Rescale can help deliver on those requirements. Customers are excited about the flexibility and scalability Rescale offers, but they also share concerns about management and oversight of these new cloud services. One specific concern shared with Rescale…
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Testing Promise Side Effects with Async/Await
You might have run into situations where you’re calling asynchronous code inside of a callback of some framework, and you need to test their side effects. For example, you might be making API calls inside of a React component’s componentDidMount() callback that will in turn call setState() when the request has completed, and you want…
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Introducing In-Browser Secure Shell (SSH): The Fastest Way to Access Your Cluster Nodes
Rescale is pleased to introduce a powerful new feature now available on our platform: In-Browser SSH. For jobs using Linux compute clusters on supported providers, you will now see an SSH panel under the Live Tailing panel that allows you to connect to the running cluster using SSH: For jobs running on supported hardware, this…
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Software Design Patterns: Pragmatic Learnings From Writing Production Code
As a green, but eager developer at a fast-paced startup, it can feel like staring straight up at El Capitan when tasked with simultaneously learning the code base and writing production-ready maintainable code. At Rescale, developers are given wide latitude in making software design choices to implement a given feature. Recently, we implemented the ability…
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Scaling Genetics Research with Cloud Computing
Advances in technology in the past decade have decreased the cost of sequencing the human genome significantly. With lower costs, researchers are able to perform population studies for various disorders and diseases. To perform these population studies, they will need to sequence thousands of patients and as a result, generate a significant amount of data…
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Introducing In-Browser Desktops: Instantly Launch Powerful HPC Visualizations
Rescale is pleased to introduce a handy new feature now available on our platform, In-Browser Desktops. With this new feature, all you need is a modern web browser and a few clicks to connect to a powerful remote desktop for your pre/post-processing and visualization needs. In-Browser Desktops are the fastest way to launch a visualization node…
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Manor Racing Revs Up Simulation Capacity with Rescale Cloud HPC
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Cloud 3.0: The Rise of Big Compute
The next $100B+ opportunity in cloud computing and its first killer app: Deep Learning As we have entered into 2017, the enterprise software industry is at the inflection point for ubiquitous cloud adoption as part of the $4 trillion dollar enterprise IT market transformation. The reasons for enterprise IT to adopt cloud are compelling, and…
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Introducing Persistent Clusters: a New Feature to Save Time & Money with Multiple Jobs
Rescale released a new feature with its latest deploy: persistent clusters. This feature, when enabled, allows users to submit multiple jobs to the same cluster using the Rescale workflow (web UI) without needing to launch and shutdown multiple clusters. Prior to this, each job had to spin up its own cluster, which then shut down…
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3 Hidden Benefits of Cloud HPC
Companies are moving to high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for access to flexible, varied, pay-per-use HPC resources. At the same time, they don’t have to manage these assets or spend a massive amount of capital and time to deploy them. Moving simulations to cloud HPC resources enables companies to take advantage of a wide…
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Bring Your Own Storage (Part 1)
The Rescale platform provides end-to-end file management backed by storage offerings from the major public cloud vendors. This includes optimized client-side transfer tools as well as in-transit and at-rest encryption. In this model, Rescale controls the object store layout and encryption key management. In order to retrieve the decrypted file content, users must use Rescale…