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Introducing Amber for Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Rescale
Rescale is pleased to announce the availability and latest release of the Amber (2014) molecular dynamics and modeling suite for CPUs and GPUs. I will go over the process for requesting and receiving access to run your Amber simulations. Then, I will share the results of a typical job with timings over a range of…
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Rescale Appoints Zack Smocha as Vice President of Product Marketing
San Francisco, CA – Rescale, a leading cloud platform provider of simulation software and high performance computing (HPC) solutions, today announced that Zack Smocha has joined the company as Vice President of Product Marketing, bringing two decades of experience in cloud and enterprise software marketing to his new role. As a member of the Rescale…
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Reducing Computation Time for Multiple Operating Point Simulations on Rescale
IntroductionComputer simulations are often used to examine how a system behaves for a variety of different conditions, such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of a wing operating at a range of Mach numbers or a jet engine compressor at varying pressure ratios. These simulations are computationally expensive and can take anywhere from a few…
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COMSOL Multiphysics® Now Available on Rescale’s Cloud
San Francisco, CA – Rescale is excited to announce the availability of COMSOL Multiphysics® software on Rescale simulation platforms through a collaboration with COMSOL, creators of the robust, physics-based modeling and simulation software.COMSOL Multiphysics® is an all-inclusive modeling software, based on powerful numerical methods, for simulating physics-based problems. With COMSOL Multiphysics® users are able to account…
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Budget Your Simulation Costs on Rescale
The Budget featureWhen you run simulations on Rescale, you may want to control your budgets and spending. For example, an individual user might want to set a budget cap on their jobs, or a company administrator may want to control the total spending for the whole company or a specific project.Set budgets for yourselfAs an…
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Creating diagrams with React, SVG, and css-layout
This article shows our process of creating diagrams using React, SVG, and Facebook’s css-layout library. At Rescale, we provide a web UI for our customers to set up a license proxy server for communication between our compute nodes and their on-premise license servers. A diagram is a great way to show our users how these…
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How To: Use the Rescale Transfer Manager
The Rescale Transfer Manager is a native Windows application that can be used to download output files from jobs. This is a more robust and faster alternative to downloading large files through the browser. Getting Started First, you’ll need to provision an API key for your account by navigating to Settings > API (direct link).…
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BYO Software Regression Testing on Rescale
Rescale is a valuable regression and performance testing resource for software vendors. Using our API and command line tools, we will discuss how you can run all or a subset of your in-house regression tests on Rescale. The advantages of testing on Rescale are as follows: Test Setup For the remainder of this article, we…
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Siemens Expands NX Simulation Solutions on Rescale’s On-Demand Cloud Environment
San Francisco, October 13, 2015 – The simulation solutions within Siemens’ comprehensive NX™ software offering that perform thermal and fluid flow analysis are now available on Rescale’s on-demand, dynamically scalable, cloud simulation and high-performance computing (HPC) platform. With Siemens’ NX™ Nastran® software already available on Rescale, this addition provides customers a broader selection of Siemens’ simulation…
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FLOWTECH Announces Availability of SHIPFLOW on Rescale’s Platform
San Francisco, October 6, 2015 – SHIPFLOW users can now perform simulations on the Rescale cloud high performance computing (HPC) platform. This gives users the ability to immediately scale up their computer resources during computation intensive periods. Smaller organizations will also find it beneficial to use an agile, pay-on-demand pricing model that allows them to compete…
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Free Energy Calculations on the Rescale Platform
Within the life sciences industry, one of the most important simulation methods for developing a new drug is free energy perturbation (FEP), which is a particular method in the class of free energy calculations. In simplified terms, the objective of free energy calculations is to compute the free energy difference between two different chemical states…
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Rescale and CTC Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Cloud HPC Platform in Japan
Consolidated simulation environment allows Japanese enterprise companies to drastically reduce analysis time and access 100+ simulation software ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Satoshi Kikuchi, President & CEO; hereinafter “CTC”) has formed a strategic partnership Rescale, Inc. (headquartered in California, United States; Founder & CEO; Joris Poort) to become a reseller of Rescale’s cloud…
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Tutorial: Manage Groups and Projects on the Rescale Enterprise Portal
Rescale’s ScaleX Enterprise Portal allows administrators to have fine-grained control over the their members’ spending on the ScaleX platform by setting up Groups and Projects. In this post we’ll explain what these concepts are and how to use them. Groups on the ScaleX platform are groups of members – they are useful mainly for their…
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Rescale Announces Launch of Europe Region Cloud HPC Platform
San Francisco, August 26, 2015 – Rescale, the industry-leading simulation and high performance computing (HPC) platform provider, announced today that the Europe region simulation and HPC platforms are now publicly available. Rescale’s Europe region deployment of ScaleX Enterprise, ScaleX Pro, and ScaleX Developer provides European companies with the ability to instantly scale out their computer-aided…
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Quick Tip: Editing Input Files
It can be useful to modify input files before running a job on Rescale. You may now do so directly in the browser. On the Input Files step of an un-submitted job, you can find the edit file button under certain input files’ actions: Clicking the edit button will reveal an in-browser editor: Basic search…
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Using Database Views in Django ORM
Sometimes using database views rather than database tables can be very helpful for querying aggregated data. Typically in the Django ORM, a database table is tied to a Django ORM model, but we found it is also possible to tie a database view with a Django ORM model. By doing so, you can hide the…
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Logging into Rescale with a Microsoft Active Directory SSO Identity Provider
Rescale recently rolled out SAML Single Sign-On login support for our ScaleX Enterprise users. This post will discuss how to set up Rescale as a SAML Service Provider, using Azure Active Directory as the Identity Provider. Prerequisites to follow the tutorial below are that you have ScaleX Enterprise and Microsoft Azure accounts. SAML Background SAML…
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Rescale Presents ScaleX™ Enterprise Webinar Series: Transform IT, Empower Engineers, Unleash Innovation
San Francisco, CA – July 7th, 2015 – Rescale announces a 3-part webinar series that helps CIOs and IT professionals make a smooth transition to cloud HPC for engineering and science simulations. The webinar series will be held on three consecutive Wednesdays- July 29th, August 5th, and August 12th of 2015, at 8:00 am Pacific…
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ScaleX Enterprise: Enabling CIO’s and IT Leaders to Unleash Innovation
After two years of development and incubation, we are very excited about the launch of Rescale’s ScaleX Enterprise platform in May. This solution was built with the goal to provide IT leaders and managers with the tools to fully leverage the efficiency and financial advantages of a cloud simulation platform and HPC infrastructure. We’ve combined…
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Testing React and Flux Applications with Karma and Webpack
At Rescale, we were using the Jest framework by Facebook to test our React and Flux application. Jest is a simple-to-get-started testing framework with an API similar to that of Jasmine, but with automatic mocking of CommonJS modules baked in. However, like many developers in the open source community have noted, we’ve found that Jest…