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Responding to Sandi Metz on Duplication
Sandi Metz recently wrote an article proclaiming that duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction. This article raises valuable points about the costs of speculative generalization, but it’s part of a long line of articles detailing and railing against those costs. By now it should be old hat to hear someone criticize abstraction, and yet…
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Running Chess Engines in the Cloud
On November 11th, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen will defend his chess world championship against Sergey Karjakin of Russia. The unified championship will return to New York and American soil for the first time since 1990, when two chess legends, Kasparov and Karpov, met for the last time in a world chess championship match. Since then, chess’…
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How Cloud Computing Powers Innovation in Manufacturing Companies
An engineer from a phone manufacturing company was explaining to me that consumers are asking for exponentially more features today. This increase in features is leading to more components in the phone and thus introducing more risk in the product development and design process. The number of test scenarios this engineer has to foresee to…
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Bringing supercomputing to the masses
We’re at an inflection point in the computer industry.Today’s iPhones hold more processing power than the best Apollo-era computers. Moore’s Law tells us that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years. We hold an unprecedented amount of computing power at our fingertips, and it’s still growing at an exponential rate.This holds…
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Aim to fix classes of bugs
Sometimes I feel good after fixing a bug. More likely though, I feel like I’ve made things worse. Fixing bugs often makes the code a little harder to read and a little more difficult to understand. Worse, fixing bugs may accidentally introduce even more bugs.Most of the time, bugs occur because programmers can’t envision all…
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Interactive Neural Network Design on Rescale
With the recent release of Rescale Deep Learning Cloud, we will present an example here that makes use of our new interactive notebook feature to develop deep neural networks. This feature enables an iterative workflow alternating between interactive data preprocessing and analysis, and batch training of neural networks.In this article, we will start with an…
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Navigating the Cloud HPC Solutions for Enterprise IT
The above tweet in my newsfeed caught my attention because it succinctly echoed thoughts several IT leaders have recently shared with me. Recent research, like this study from Accenture, reinforce Tim’s observation: Frustrating the “how” decisions by IT leaders is the velocity in the expansion of the cloud market. The low barrier to entry is…
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MPI Benchmarking on Google Compute Platform Revisit
Three years ago we visited Google’s IaaS service – Google Compute Engine (GCE) for its networking performance and Ryan posted the results in his blog post. Back then, the conclusion was that GCE instances were more suitable for a typical workload of hosting web services but there was still performance tuning space for HPC applications. Recently,…
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Engineering and IT: Bridging the Gap
Let’s face it, IT departments typically aren’t the most loved members of their organizations. While they perform a vital role, other departments consistently view IT as a roadblock or bottleneck. While this is an unfair characterization of IT departments, the perception persists. Of course, your level of interaction, and thus frustration, with your IT group…
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Rescale and ARGO GRAPHICS announce partnership to provide new cloud HPC service, ARGO sFlexNavi powered by Rescale
ARGO GRAPHICS Inc. of Tokyo and Rescale, Inc. of San Francisco, California have formed a partnership to jointly offer a cloud-based CAE/HPC service starting in October 2016. Under the agreement, ARGO GRAPHICS’s proprietary software and support services will be delivered on Rescale’s cloud HPC platform and infrastructure. The partnership capitalizes on the growing trend towards…
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Patient-specific hemodynamics on the cloud with VMTKLab and Rescale
Orobix is excited to announce the availability of a new cloud-based computational hemodynamics module for its VMTKLab application that will be released on September, 20th. The module is powered by Rescale, the world’s leading cloud platform for simulation software and high performance computing (HPC) solutions.VMTKLab is an application dedicated to patient-specific computational hemodynamics used by…
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JL & Associates Utilizes Rescale To Expedite Oil Boiling CFD Analysis
Customer Challenge:JL & A, a business and engineering consultancy firm based in Colorado, was looking to utilize multiphase CFD analysis for modeling boiling oil (C12H2). Their main goal was to achieve steady state convergence which required 23k Iterations @ ~20 sec/It. The resource demands of this analysis would completely monopolize the company’s analysis licensed PC, rendering it unusable…
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Rescale Opens Tokyo Office, Appoints Atsuhiko Fukuda as General Manager of Japan to Accelerate Global Expansion
Rescale Inc., the San Francisco-based global leader in cloud HPC, today announced the establishment of a new business entity Rescale Japan K.K. and an office in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo in order to accelerate Rescale’s growth in the Japanese HPC market. To meet increasing demand from Rescale’s customers in Japan and oversee new and existing partnerships,…
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Thoughts on Using Tachyons for Rescale.com’s Redesign
A little more than a month ago we shipped a redesigned version of our homepage, https://rescale.com. During its development, we thought it would be a good time to reevaluate the way we were writing our CSS.At the time, our main CSS file was more than 2000 lines long, written in the classic semantic-class-names style (e.g.…
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The Curious Case of the Windows HTTP Proxy
The web is the preferred delivery mechanism for most applications these days but there are scenarios where you might want to build a CLI or desktop application for your customers to use. However, once you leave the cozy confines of the browser there are a whole slew of proxy configurations that your poor application will…
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Supersonic Simulations in the Cloud: Spike Aerospace Migrates All CFD to the Cloud Using Rescale
Background and ChallengeSpike Aerospace is a fast-growing engineering firm developing the world’s first supersonic business jet with Quiet Supersonic Flight technology. We run hundreds of complex CFD simulations to understand the aerodynamic performance of our aircraft. CFD simulations are computationally intensive and traditionally require significant investment in on-premise infrastructure, tens of thousands of hours of…
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Name Classes Like Magic: the Gathering Cards
I grew up playing Magic: the Gathering. As a kid I noticed something interesting about the card names – there were no generic names. There were no cards named “Zombie” or “Elf” or “Wizard”. There were cards named “Fugitive Wizard”, “Llanowar Elves”, “Gravebane Zombie”, and even “Storm Crow” but no “Crow”. Modern card names…
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Deep Learning with Multiple GPUs on Rescale: Torch
Today we will discuss how to make use of multiple GPUs to train a single neural network using the Torch machine learning library. This is the first in a series of articles on techniques for scaling up deep neural network (DNN) training workloads to use multiple GPUs and multiple nodes.In this series, we will be…
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MacroAir Leverages Rescale to Elevate the Customer Experience with Simulation
San Bernadino, CA – MacroAir is the pioneer of the High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fan industry. Our HVLS fans move massive amounts of air, and one way we are different from our competitors is that we provide our CFD-based AirViz service to simulate and prove the effectiveness of our fans. We model the airflow…
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EDEM Now Available on Rescale’s Cloud Simulation Platform
San Francisco, CA – Rescale and EDEM are pleased to announce the availability of EDEM software on Rescale’s simulation platform through collaboration with EDEM, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) specialist and market leader.EDEM is high-performance software for bulk material simulation. EDEM simulation and analysis enable engineers to solve complex problems in the design, prototyping, and…